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...