MONDAYs, Jan. 5th - 26th | What happens when you let the ear lead the poem? In this four-week generative workshop, we’ll explore how poets build feeling through rhythm, repetition, and the strategic choreography of the line. We’ll read contemporary poems as if they were musical scores—attending to how lineation and visual choices direct pace, pressure, and voice on the page.
Each session blends close reading, in-class writing, and guided discussion. We’ll experiment with echo, pause, and patterned sound, not as ornament, but as architecture, then translate those discoveries into revision moves that clarify intent.
By the end of this class, participants will:
• Identify how line, rhythm, and visual arrangement cue breath, emphasis, and momentum.
• Read contemporary poets like Ruth Awad and Danez Smith to see sonic craft in action.
• Draft at least four new poems that foreground the ear—and refine them with targeted revision.
• Leave with a practical “listening checklist” to carry into future work.
For poets of all levels ready to sharpen sound and line.