Award-winning Poet Laureate of Wisconsin Brenda Cárdenas was in residence with Letras Latinas and the Raclin Murphy Museum Art in late September 2025 to launch “Poets & Art: Ekphrasis at the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art,” a multi-year partnership between the Museum and Letras Latinas. Enjoy a reading of her poems and an exploration of poetry and the visual arts in conversation with one another below.
Cárdenas also spent two days at the Museum observing, reflecting, and writing a new ekphrastic poem inspired by artwork from the Museum’s permanent collection, and led a community-focused ekphrastic writing workshop.
This event is made possible with additional support from: the Notre Dame Arts Initiative, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, Initiative on Race and Resilience, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Somos ND, and the Poetry Foundation. For more information, please visit the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art website. For more information on Letras Latinas at the Institute for Latino Studies, please visit the Letras Latinas website.
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