The Midwest Writing Center is hosting a poetry workshop facilitated by Salvatore Marici, author of several collections and chapbooks from Ice Cube Press.

Write a Musical Score within Poems
Music invokes feelings. Musicians have physical tools to create music. Poets’ tools are the skillful arrangements of words and their sounds to convey and reinforce the imagery, meaning that will invoke an emotional response to a poem. Soft repetitive sounds encourage readers to float in a breeze; hard repetitive sounds put readers in a car crash. Rhymes end like nursery rhymes. Rhymes hidden within lines. A pattern of up and down sounds via stress and unstress syllables. We will play with these sound devices. You will write your own score with riffs inside your poem that create imagery, invoke feelings and clarifies meaning.