Poetry

WRITE and LEARN POETRY with James Dewar is offered in the online ZOOM ROOM format on alternate Saturday mornings from 10:00 am until NOON EDT.
 
We spend about 15 minutes each workshop discussing an interesting aspect of writing good verse and then practice it by creating at least two poems. We then encourage each other to share our fresh new poems offering feedback that accentuates what is working well and what stays with us.
 
Bring your muses to this productive workshop. We’re sure the good company will inspire them to be generous.
 
The fee to attend each workshop is $40.00 plus HST.

Upcoming Workshop dates in 2023/2024:
 
October 7th
October 28th
November 11th
November 25th
December 16th
January 13th
January 27th

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Some of the topics James has covered in previous workshops:

• Making a Metaphor
• Lyricism as Surprise
• Creating Tone using Assonance
• Endings – How Do You Know When a Poem is Done?
• Choosing from the Stanza Bonanza
• Odes
• Creating Immediacy in Poems
• Enjambment as Entertainment
• Revision Using InterPoesie Techniques part 1
• Poetry of Place
• How Readers Recognize Themselves in Poems
• Dreaded Associations
• Finding the Centre of a Poem
• Long-Armed Poems (after Ellen Bass)
• The Difference Between Sentiment & Sentimentality
• Assonance and Mood
• Dramatic Monologues
• Prose Poems
• The Turn
• Creating Echoes
• Enjambment Excellence
• Revision Using InterPoesie Techniques part 2
• Tenor and Vehicle
• Sound and Movement
• Points of View
• Designing Titles