Marion Starling Boyer
3 session free workshop -Discovering & Building on Your Natural Poetic Temperament
Tue, Aug 20
|South Euclid-Lyndhurst Public Library
What's your natural poetic temperament: Story, Structure, Music, or Imagination? Understand yours and learn which ones to strengthen. All poets and prose writers welcome.
Time & Location
Aug 20, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
South Euclid-Lyndhurst Public Library , 1876 S Green Rd, South Euclid, OH 44121, USA
Guests
About the event
Gregory Orr says we are each born with a natural talent for writing poetry in one of four temperaments: Story, Structure, Music, and Imagination. In this three-session workshop we will examine which temperaments come most naturally to you and play with techniques to deepen, vary, and broaden your instinctive style. Sessions 1 & 2 will explore each of the temperaments with examples to discuss and offer generative writing prompts for experimentation. The final session will include ways to refine and revise poems you’ve created.
Open to all poets who want to explore new approaches to developing their natural skills and prose writers who wish to apply these temperaments to their work or give writing poetry a try.
Session 1, July 23. Following a craft talk introducing Orr’s framework for the four natural temperaments, we will examine and discuss examples in work by various writers and then focus…