TULSA GLITTERARY: WORKSHOP & READING WITH RICK BAROT
Organized by Awardee Steve Bellin-Oka.
IMAGES: (L) Bad Hobby by Kathy Fagan, R) The Galleons by Rick Barot
June 16, 2023 | 3 - 4 pm
The Voice in the Poem: A Craft Class with Rick Barot
Flagship at Tulsa Artist Fellowship
112 N Boston Ave, Tulsa, OK 74103
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June 16, 2023 | 7 - 8 pm
Reading by Rick Barot
Magic City Books
221 E Archer St, Tulsa, OK 74103
Tulsa Artist Fellowship programming is free and open to all.
The qualities that make a voice a voice can be vexingly hard to describe when a reader encounters this voice in a poem. The reader knows when that vibrant authenticity is there, or the reader intuits when it’s not fully there. In this three-hour class, participants will examine the thematic and formal energies that shape the voice in a poem, giving that voice its credibility, force, and pathos; look at exemplary work by singular poets and pay granular notice to the technical moves that make the reader listen to, and inhabit, the voices these poets conjure on the page.
Learn how distinct deployments of voice—such as persona and the first-person collective speaker—can broaden and complicate our resourcefulness as poets. The ideas and examples workshop participants will discuss are meant to bring new powers and inflections to their poems.