
Taking Your Temperament: Working with Story, Structure, Music, and Imagination with Michael Broder
Sat, Jun 15
|Zoom
What is the inherent nature of your poems? That quality that only you can bring to your work? Join us in a workshop to discover your temperament and the personal qualities you bring to your work.


Time & Location
Jun 15, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Zoom
About the Event
In an influential 1988 essay, poet Gregory Orr identifies story, structure, music, and imagination as the four temperaments that define poets and their poetry. What is your poetic temperament?
In this class, we will explore Orr’s model, delving into his ideas about the interaction of finite temperaments (story, structure) and infinite temperaments (music, imagination).
Reading poems by Julia Alvarez, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Frank O’Hara, Dorothy Parker, James Wright, and others, we will observe how the four temperaments allow poets, in the words of Orr, “to forge language into the convincing unities we call poems.”
This class is suitable for writers and readers alike. Poets will gain new insight into their own poetic temperament and how they can refine it to achieve their creative objectives. Readers will deepen their engagement with poetry by acquiring a new interpretive framework.
A segment devoted to generative writing will allow writers and non-writers alike…
Tickets
Taking Your Temperament
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