• Ekphrastic Writing at Greenburgh Public Library

  December 2025 The term, Ekphrastic Writing, has been around since Aristotle. Since 2007 I’ve been leading community workshops as part of the Brenda Connor-Bey Learning to See Legacy Series... Read More

• Two Ekphrastic Writing Workshops at Belfast Poetry Festival 2025

  Ann will be leading “Ekphrastic Explorations” on Friday, October 17 at Waterfall Arts (Clifford Gallery) starting at 10 am. and Saturday, October 18 at the Belfast Free Library’s Kramer... Read More

• From Democratic Aesthetics to Digital Culture

  In September 2025 I had the pleasure of conducting my ekphrastic poetry workshop at the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Image hosted at the Sorbonne, Paris. I met an... Read More

• June 17th & 18th, 2023 Workshop – Writing Towards Peace: Guest Reader Ann van Buren

  Amsterdam Writing Workshop hosts “Writing Towards Peace” with guest reader Ann van Buren. June 17th to June 18th, 2023, 8:00 am – 12:00 noon EDT Taught by Lisa Friedman... Read More

• Girls write Now Zoom Workshops 2023

  Every voice has a place in poetry! Ann van Buren leads generative writing workshops in person and on Zoom and offers insights to contemporary poetry through interviews with writers... Read More

• Series 1: Poetry as Storytelling Workshops [1/4] For Poets & Writers of Prose

  Writing Pictures of Our Lives At this workshop, you’ll use photographs from your life—and from the world around you—to tell your story. We’ll read and discuss poems about childhood... Read More

• Series 2: Poetry for the Soul Workshops [2/4] For Poets & Writers, Activists & Caregivers

  Writing our Path to Peace Poems of war and peace are part of every cultural tradition. This workshop offers historical examples of such writings. Together, we’ll explore poetry and... Read More

• Series 3: Ekphrastic Poetry Workshops: [3/4] Writing to Images For Everyone Who Wishes to Find New Material

  Walk with the Artists This workshop takes place at a museum or gallery. For the original class, we toured the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York; for the... Read More

• Series 4: Environmental Poetry Workshops For Poets, Prose Writers, & Citizens of the Planet

  Writing Nature’s Cycles At this workshop, we travel to any setting that strikes our imaginations—indoors or out.* On our travels, we’ll use observations from the natural world to find... Read More

• The Elements of Eco Poetry Saturday, October 22, 2022 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (ET)

  Here, we explore poems and images of Air and Wind, of Water and Fire. All the while, we’ll be grounded in representations of Earth in art—and in our writing.... Read More