As Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate, Brenda Cárdenas is traveling around the state with a mission: inspiring creativity through ekphrastic poetry.
This form of poetry invites people to pen a creative response to a work of visual art. Cárdenas, a recently retired UW-Milwaukee English professor and an award-winning Mexican American author who intertwines English and Spanish in her poems, will teach ekphrasis in workshops at libraries, art museums and cultural centers, and gather the public’s resulting poems…