Held within Celina Eceiza’s immersive exhibition, this poetry workshop invites participants to explore tenderness as an embodied, relational practice. Rooted in attention, slowness, and shared making, the session begins with participants engaging the exhibition through the senses—recording what they see, touch, hear, smell, and taste with precision, while setting aside metaphor and interpretation. From this practice of careful observation, each writer will be invited to make a simple claim: a truth that emerges through attention. 

In the second half of the workshop, poetry becomes a connective act. Participants will draw from a curated selection of short poems that function as oracles—gentle prompts for pairing and conversation. Matched in small groups, they will move through the exhibition together, listening and exchanging ideas before composing an ekphrastic poem for one another inspired by their interaction and the surrounding works. 

Selected lines will then be gathered—typed, or handwritten—into a collective poem created in real time. The session concludes with a communal reading, allowing individual voices to form a shared chorus. 

This workshop approaches reading and writing as embodied, communal practices. Participants will leave with new work, a deepened awareness of attention as an ethical stance, and an experience of poetry as a form of connection. No prior writing experience is required.