Poetry Fundamentals

Poetry Fundamentals

Adult Multi-Week | This class is completed

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States

Weinstein

Beginner to Intermediate

9/13/2017-11/1/2017

6:30 PM-9:00 PM EDT on Wed

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$180.00

$162.00

$5.00

Poetry is the art of capturing ideas and emotions in a precise arrangement of words. You will learn the basics of composing poems and interpreting the poems of published authors and your classmates in an intimate, supportive environment. Enjoy weekly writing assignments, directed free writing, collaborative exercises, and the close reading of published texts. We’ll look at image, metaphor, line, repetition, and voice.

  • Students should bring something to write with.
Marshall, Randy

Randy Marshall, a Richmond native, serves as senior literary editor of Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts. His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in Richmond Arts Magazine, New South (formerly Georgia State University Review), cream city review, Diode, and Blackbird. He co-edited (with Mary Flinn, Andrew Miller, and John Venable) The Gazer Within, published in 2001 as part of the University of Michigan Press Poets on Poetry Series. Marshall earned a BA in Spanish and his MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University where he currently works as an adjunct instructor.