The Woodson Art Museum most of the time focuses on presenting the kind of art you look at, but next week it will play host to a man who specializes in the kind of art that you read.
Wisconsin’s poet laureate Max Garland, a former mail carrier who is now a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, will explore the synergy between art and literature in two presentations at the Woodson.
The award-winning poet, essayist and fiction writer will lead a reading and reception titled “Photography & Poetry” from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Dec. 5. Garland also will present “Be Transported,” a poetry workshop, held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec 6. The poet will present examples of poetry that are ekphrastic — literary descriptions of or comments on a visual work of art — and participants will be encouraged to create and share their writing.
In addition to those two public events, Garland will work with University of Wisconsin Marathon County creative writing students during his stint in Wausau.
The events were originally conceived by Kathy Serley of Wausau, a part-time communications instructor at Upper Iowa University, a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and a volunteer docent and greeter at the Woodson. She heard Garland read at the Marathon County Public Library last year shortly after he began his two-year role at the state’s poet laureate.
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