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Saturday, May 11 • 4:15pm - 5:15pm
The Textures and Music of Language: Learning from Poets
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Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking, wrote Paul Valery. In this session, we will explore how prose writers can pick up a few dance moves from poets. By looking closely at the stories and memoirs of poets such as Ross Gay, Beth Ann Fennelly and Cathy Park Hong, we will consider what it means to pay attention to music and imagery, form and figurative language, and how we can apply these tools to the worlds of fiction and non-fiction. Through a mixture of lecture and guided writing exercises, participants can expect to leave this session writing prose that sounds anything but prosaic.
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Ben Berman

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Ben Berman is the author of three books of poems and the new collection of essays, Writing While Parenting. He has won the Peace Corps Award for the Best Book of Poetry, has twice been shortlisted twice for the Massachusetts Book Awards and has received awards from the Massachusetts... Read More →

Saturday May 11, 2024 4:15pm - 5:15pm EDT
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  Nonfiction   Fiction   Poetry

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