SAM Creates: Vivid Description Poetry Workshop with Luther Hughes

Join poet and writer, Luther Hughes (they/them), for a series of workshops on ekphrastic poetry—poems written about works of art—inspired by SAM’s exhibition, Following Space: Thaddeus Mosely and Alexander Calder. Each week, we will discuss contemporary poems to help us understand how to write our own ekphrastic poetry. Come and dive deep into the wondrous work of Mosely and Calder.

Luther Hughes (they/them) is the author of A Shiver in the Leaves (BOA Editions, 2022), listed as best books of 2022 in The New Yorker, and the chapbook, Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2018), recommended by the American Library Association. They are the founder of Shade Literary Arts, an organization for queer writers of color, and cohosts The Poet Salon Podcast with Gabrielle Bates and Dujie Tahat. Their honors include the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Rosenberg Fellowship, the 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize, Cascade PBS’s Black Arts Legacies honoree, and named Most Influential by Seattle Magazine. Their writing has been published in The Paris Review, Orion, American Poetry Review, and others. They’ve been featured in The Seattle Times, Forbes, Essence, KUOW Public Radio, and more. Luther lives in Seattle, where they were born and raised. 

This class is part of a series of three poetry workshops. Register for all three for a discount! The workshops take place from 1–3 pm on Sundays

March 16

April 13

May 18

Programs and activities relating to Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder are generously supported by