Poetry and Music: A Writing Workshop with Renee Schell and Evelyn So
- When
- Sun Sep 21, 2014
- Where
- Poetry Center San Jose
- Time
- 1-4:30pm
- Cost
- $35 - $75
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Writing Groups
Description
As writers, we often rely on our sense of vision. We speak of visual imagery, concrete specifics, and the mind’s eye. What about the mind’s ear? Join us as we explore the world of poems about music. This is a music-listening and writing workshop designed to elicit writing that reflects some aspect of music. We’ll immerse ourselves in evocative pieces of music and examine sample poems in order to release our own stories of music into new writing. We plan three writing sessions followed by brief, optional sharing.We’ll read contemporary poems about specific pieces of music, composers, and performers. For additional inspiration, we’ll listen to music by a variety of composers. We’ll emphasize using sensory language to evoke or allude to sound and the surprising ways in which music surfaces in our lives. As we write, we’ll listen for the rhythms of language, the melody of a line.
We all have stories about music that we can tell in our poems, whether we’re musicians or not. We hope you’ll join us in an afternoon of writing with music.
Free parking in the Staff/Volunteer lot on Phelan Avenue.
Please enter History Park from the Phelan Avenue side.
More Info
- Call
- 408-368-0353
- Contact Form (account required)
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