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    Writing Poetry That Sounds Like Poetry: Avoiding 'Prose Arranged Lines'

    Presented by Poetry West at Casa Verde Commons House

    March 3, 2012


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    Writing Poetry That Sounds Like Poetry: Avoiding 'Prose Arranged Lines'

    Dr. Mark Todd will read from his work and facilitate a workshop about crafting verse in ways to know we're hearing poetry, not prose. All too often it's not the choice of image or trope that falls flat, but a matter of flowing with the rhythmical tendencies of our language, he says, and understanding how metrical rhythms function. He will present a few guidelines to correct the awkward flow of some free verse. Poet and novelist Mark Todd has...

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    Dr. Mark Todd will read from his work and facilitate a workshop about crafting verse in ways to know we're hearing poetry, not prose. All too often it's not the choice of image or trope that falls flat, but a matter of flowing with the rhythmical tendencies of our language, he says, and understanding how metrical rhythms function. He will present a few guidelines to correct the awkward flow of some free verse. Poet and novelist Mark Todd has taught at Western State College of Colorado since 1988 and directs the Masters of Fine Arts creative writing program. He has two published collections of poetry, "Wire Song", and "Tamped, But Loose Enough to Breathe" as well as the novel "The Silverville Swindle" and a forthcoming sequel, "The Silverville Curse," both novels co-written with author-journalist Kym O'Connell-Todd.


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    Casa Verde Commons House

    1355 Lindenwood Grove
    Colorado Springs, CO 80903

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    10 a.m. - 12 p.m.


    Phone: 719-473-5264


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