This workshop will introduce students to the Ekphrastic poetic idea which will help us reflect on, harmonize, remember, and move through particular points of American history centering visual objects. By exploring the poetry of Nikki Finney, Sasha Pimentel, Kimberly Reyes, and John Keats, students will get a taste of different types of ekphrasis based on pictures, paintings, sculptures, short films, and other forms of visual art. This workshop will culminate in poets creating their own ekphrastic pieces based on the Smithsonian Folklife Festival of Sacred Object Collection. Students will provide a narrative for their visual artworks in order to turn the visual into the verbal or create a poem.