Line, Image, and Music: Key Elements of Poetry
presented by Pam Davenport & Lin Benedek
6 weeks
Starts January 23
Tuition: $500
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Line, Image and Music:
Key Elements of Poetry
Winter 2017
No single element of poetry stands alone; each is distinctive only in relation to other elements. Looking closely at the intersections among line, image and sound in poetry can enhance our appreciation for poems and help us to improve our own writing craft.
This course is designed for poets at all levels of experience, including beginners. We will start with a discussion of writing in free verse—what it is and how poets write this way. During the course we will cover the process of discovering what to write about; learning craft elements; sustaining momentum and taming the inner critic; workshopping; revising; and possibly submitting to a journal or contest.
Topics will include:
An overview of the key elements of line, image and music in poetry
Ways of crafting the line
Imagery and figures of speech
Imagery as it relates to a specific sense
Symbolism and the art of description
Sense of place, tone and theme as they relate to imagery
The look of the poem on the page as its own kind of visual element
Music elements of the poem: rhyme, repetition, rhythm/meter, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia
The ways diction, tone, and theme contribute to the music of the poem
The long-standing relationship between poetry and song
At the end of the class, students will be able to look at poems differently, with a greater awareness of their texture, and will have a stronger sense of how various poetic elements work together in their own writing and how to incorporate these elements of craft.
6 weeks
January 23 through March 3
Tuition: $500
Future Offerings
Writing Formal Poetry: Sonnets, Villanelles, Pantoums, Ghazls, Haiku and more
Poetry of Witness
Writing the Persona Poem
Writing for Spoken Word
Writing Experimental Poetry
Submitting your Work to Literary Journals, Publishers, Contests
MFA Prep: Applying to MFA Programs
Writing Ekphrastic Poetry (poems deriving their inspiration from art and the arts)
Other themed classes to be decided
Private Classes
Private Coaching
