Poetry-Writing Workshop: Make a Joyful Noise

Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

English - February 25, 2016 10:08 - 1 hour - 40.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratings
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Reading and writing poems that make strong use of sounds to carry the meaning: luscious-, funny-, or ugly-sounding words; rhythms that tell the tale; echoes (rhyme, repetition).

The Instructor: Clarinda Harriss is a professor emerita of English at Towson University whose poems and short fiction are widely anthologized. Her most recent books are The White Rail, Air Travel, Mortmain, and Dirty Blue Voice.

Recorded On: Wednesday, February 10, 2016