I'm teaching a class for Gemini Ink in late July. Here's the course description:

The Exquisite Eye: A Poetry Workshop, Saturday, July 24, 2010, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Poet and assistant curator at the Wittliff Collections Shin Yu Pai will lead a workshop on ekphrastic poetry. We will look at various poetic models that deploy a range of strategies including descriptive illustration, the poem as interpretive occasion, and ekphrasis as a critical meditation, through reading poets with ties to the Southwest including Carol Moldaw, Arthur Sze, and Miriam Sagan. Participants will sharpen their visual thinking skills and experiment with writing poems based on photographic images from the Wittliff Collections’ Southwestern and Mexican Photography Collection. In keeping with the theme of environment and landscape for the Summer Festival, this workshop will contemplate images of place, drawing inspiration from images composed by children from Mineral de Pozos, Guanajuato, to anonymous photographers documenting la zone de tolerancia in the red light districts of Mexican bordertowns to Graciela Iturbide’s images of quotidian life in Juchitan, Oaxaca. (Maximum enrollment: 10-12)