The Music of Poetry
led by Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein)
via Zoom
November 4, 12:30 - 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Hosted by Hudson Valley Writers Center
ask@writerscenter.org
Working with our attention on the sound of our words returns a spirit of play and discovery to our writing.
Even while writing free verse, we can call on a range of musical techniques to both enrich our poems and help us access content that we are not yet conscious of.
Get out of your own way as you create by heightening the musicality of your poems.
In this workshop, we will first read poems that put musical form and elements at the forefront. We will review tools such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance, syllabic stresses, and enjambment.
Then we will turn to playing with these techniques and others (such as listening to a poem in a language you don’t know and “translating” it, and writing while listening to music) to produce work that is freer and perhaps more revelatory — with a more direct connection to the muse.
The workshop will include discussing the new work we have generated.
It will be taught on Zoom and capped at 15 students. Registrants will receive the Zoom link to the email address they use to register. It will arrive immediately after registration so please check your spam folder if you do not receive it. It will also be sent the day before class as a reminder. Please review the course policies page before registering for any classes.