Who: Salvatore Marici and Midwest Writing Center
What: “Write a Musical Score within Poems” Workshop
When: May 16 from 12pm – 2pm
Where: MWC offices
Cost: $10 for MWC members / $15 for non-members, with scholarships available
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.
Cost of the workshop is $10 for MWC members and $15 for non-members. Use the link below to register. Please contact MWC with questions: mwc@mwcqc.org | 309-732-7330
Instructor Bio:
Salvatore Marici’s poetry appeared in many journals and anthologies. He teaches and takes writing workshops and participates in critic groups. In 2010, Marici was the Midwest Writing Center Poet-in-Residence. He has a chapbook and three full length poetry collections, all published by Ice Cube Press.