Print detail event | Discovering Your Natural Poetic Temperament

Gregory Orr says we are each born with a natural inclination to write in one of four temperaments, which he identifies as Story, Structure, Music, and Imagination. In this three-session workshop we will examine which of these temperaments come most naturally as your style and experiment with techniques to deepen, as well as vary and broaden that instinctive style. Open to all poets who want to explore a new approach to developing their natural skills and writers in other genres who wish to give poetry a try. For our first session please bring ten copies of a poem or short piece (no more than one page, please!) that you feel represents your writing style. We will not be critiquing this work but use it to discover the temperaments inherent in your style.

Marion Starling Boyer is a poet and essayist with three published poetry collections: The Clock of the Long Now (Mayapple Press) and two chapbooks, Green(Finishing Line Press) and Composing the Rain (Grayson Books). Her fourth book, The Sea Was Never Far, is forthcoming from Main Street Rag. Boyer’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the “Best of the Net.” Her essays have been published by Great Lakes Review, Paddler Magazine, The Tishman Review, Canoe and Kayak and others. She is a professor emeritus of Kalamazoo Valley Community College and has recently moved from Michigan to the Cleveland area. Boyer has conducted poetry workshops for the 2019 Kalamazoo Poetry Festival, Wisconsin’s Washington Island 2018 Writers Festival and LitYoungstown’s 2019 Winter Writing Camp.

Admission Info

This class costs $60 / 45 for members of Literary Cleveland.

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Phone: 862-224-2319

Email: jrosen@litcleveland.org