Poems are necessary utterances. Words said when the patriarchy, the ex-lover, or the difficult day couldn’t shut you up. Or your speaker, or your persona. Poems are drama. It’s folly to forget this. There’s a human voice in there, demanding to be heard.
Let’s give ourselves a couple of hours with gorgeous poems born from the dramatic and bask in their beautiful, emotional music. I’ll select poems that demand to be read with feeling, and I hope you’ll bring a favorite poem too. We’ll interrogate them about how they’re feeling in each line, section, and turn. And we’ll recite them, perform them, discuss more, and deliver them again. We’re going to become better poetry readers, writers, and readers-aloud in the process. This won't be “public speaking for poets,” but it promises to be fun practice in a supportive, creative environment.
Objectives:
• We will shape our reading of favorite poems – both how we understand them and how we would speak them aloud – through a dramatic monologue lens.
• Choosing other poets’ poems, living or not, we’ll lose any personal stake in what the poems sound like.
• We will speak the language of emotional tone, sharpening our vocabulary and our delivery.
• We’ll be cheerleaders for each other in the shared delight of reading poems aloud
Poems are necessary utterances. Words said when the patriarchy, the ex-lover, or the difficult day couldn’t shut you up. Or your speaker, or your persona. Poems are drama. It’s folly to forget this. There’s a human voice in there, demanding to be heard.
Let’s give ourselves a couple of hours with gorgeous poems born from the dramatic and bask in their beautiful, emotional music. I’ll select poems that demand to be read with feeling, and I hope you’ll bring a favorite poem too. We’ll interrogate them about how they’re feeling in each line, section, and turn. And we’ll recite them, perform them, discuss more, and deliver them again. We’re going to become better poetry readers, writers, and readers-aloud in the process. This won't be “public speaking for poets,” but it promises to be fun practice in a supportive, creative environment.
Objectives:
• We will shape our reading of favorite poems – both how we understand them and how we would speak them aloud – through a dramatic monologue lens.
• Choosing other poets’ poems, living or not, we’ll lose any personal stake in what the poems sound like.
• We will speak the language of emotional tone, sharpening our vocabulary and our delivery.
• We’ll be cheerleaders for each other in the shared delight of reading poems aloud
