IN-PERSON PANEL — streaming live for online registrants
This program is FREE to attend. Registration is required.
Part of the 2026 Tell It Slant Poetry Festival!
Join us for the 14th annual Tell it Slant Poetry Festival, a week of events happening both online and in-person at the Museum!
This panel of award-winning poets of color, queer poets, and disabled poets will explore the evolving intersections of ekphrastic and documentary poetics, challenging traditional boundaries between image, language, and evidence. In a time when truth is suppressed, redacted, and revised in real time, while art, research, and scholarship is defunded, this panel of poet-educators explores ekphrastic dialogue as community practice, a multi-voiced collaboration that resists erasure. Audiences will leave with generative strategies for their creative practice, classrooms and other community spaces, inspired by expanding possibilities for this collaborative practice and the ways it can be leveraged to nourish healthy communities.About the presenters
Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poetry is With My Back to the World, which received the Forward Prize in Poetry. Tree of Knowledge is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Other books are OBIT, The Trees Witness Everything, and Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Her latest children’s book is Eureka. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
Jenny Molberg’s third poetry collection, The Court of No Record (LSU Press, 2023), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her fourth book, The Medium, is forthcoming from LSU Press in 2027. She is Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing and Editor-in-Chief of Ploughshares at Emerson College.
Caridad Moro-Gronlier is the 2024–2026 Poet Laureate of Miami-Dade County and a recipient of the 2025 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. She served as a poetry judge for the National Book Awards and is the author of four poetry collections, including Tortillera, winner of the TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Prize. A community-engaged poet, she collaborates widely across South Florida and serves as Senior Editor of SWWIM Every Day.
Support The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival
The Tell It Slant Poetry Festival is sustained by the Emily Dickinson Fund, which provides critical, unrestricted support for the Museum’s day-to-day operations. Your generous donation helps us offer immersive poetry programs to a global audience and preserve the historic Dickinson legacy in Amherst. As the Fund supplies 36% of our annual budget, your tax-deductible contribution is essential to our mission. Join us in inspiring learners of all ages by making an immediate impact today.