The Music of the Line: Rhythm, Rhyme and Repetition in Poetry
Hosted by: Ellen Rowland
Day: Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Time: 11:00AM-1:00PM (Eastern)
Price: $25 (payment options)
To register: email Mark Danowsky at oneartpoetry@gmail.com
Overview
Understanding and practicing the structure of formal poetry can often inform our free verse poems in beautiful and surprising ways. In this intimate, generative workshop, we’ll explore how the use of poetic devices relying on “the three Rs” can help us become better listeners when we read poetry and write our own. Through specific examples, we’ll learn to tune in to the music of the lines we create and the patterns and melodies of our word choices, while maintaining freedom of theme, expression and poetic voice. The second hour will be dedicated to discussion, prompt-based writing and optional sharing of our poems.
Limited to 15 participants
About The Workshop Leader
Ellen Rowland is a writer and editor who leads small, generative poetry workshops on craft and form. She is the author of two collections of haiku, Light, Come Gather Me and Blue Seasons, as well as the book Everything I Thought I Knew, essays on living, learning and parenting outside the status quo. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals and in several anthologies, most recently The Wonder of Small Things, edited by James Crews and Facing Goodbye by The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. Her debut collection of full-length poems, No Small Thing, was published by Fernwood Press in 2023. Her poem within, “When the World Was Whole,” was nominated for Best of Net by Braided Way Magazine. She lives off the grid with her family on an island in Greece. Connect with her on Instagram and Facebook.
