Workshops Offered

1. Figurative Language Poems

Comparisons: The Simile and Metaphor

Personification

Paradox

Irony

Hyperbole

2. Collage Poetry:

These are examples of participants' work created in a Middle School workshop on Collage Poetry:

3. Persona poems:

Writing in the voice of an object, place, another person; riddle poems

4. Japanese Syllabic Forms:

Haiku, Tanka, Somonka

4. Metrical poems:

Iamb, Trochee, Dactyl, Anapest

5. Sound Devices and Meaning:

Alliteration, Assonance, Off Rhyme: great for making raps, and rhythm poems

6. Anaphora:

List poem, Litany poem

7. Ode Poems:

8. Allusion:

Taking a text from Literature, Bible, Mythology, History, Prayer, etc... and making connections in the poem that link the present poem with the History of Literature

9. Connotation:

Compression in poetry, puns, multiple meanings, and ambiguity

10. Form Poems:

Pattern poems:

Limerick:

Sonnet:

Blues Verse:

The Villanelle:

The Sestina:

etc...