4-Week: Sonic Playground—Musical Techniques in Poetry

Some poems are songs; some songs are poems. Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. But absent a score, how do poets deploy musicality in their poems, and what is the power of musicality? Each week we’ll study and discuss different sonic techniques as well as experimenting with them in our own work. This is a generative class; expect to leave with drafts that sing. While this course will use poetry as our guiding texts, prose writers looking to hone their musicality are welcome!

Please note this course will skip the week of July 16, and run through July 30.