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Diving Into Poetry and its Craft

Code: WC11801

Dates: September 23 - November 11, 2024

Meets: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Sessions: 8

Location: Creutzburg Center 200

Course Fee: $136.00

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Examine different aspects of the poetry craft. Whether an emerging or practiced poet, benefit from studying aspects of craft which delight in lyric, narrative, prose and ekphrastic poems. Writing prompts, including those using visual art, will connect with specific devices such as imagery, metaphor and sound effects through assonance, consonance, alliteration and more. Learn how to include such devices in your poems, mimicking the likes of Pablo Neruda, Mary Oliver and Ada Limon.
Fee: $136.00
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Creutzburg Center 200

260 Gulph Creek Road
(in Harford Park)
Radnor, PA 19087
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Katherine Barham

Katherine Barham holds a Masters from UVA in secondary English education and an MFA degree in Poetry from Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She retired from teaching English at Conestoga High School, where she developed a writing course titled The Writer’s Craft. Since then she has written a chapbook titled From the Familiar, Moonstone Press, and a book of poems, How It Shone, Atmosphere Press. She currently resides in Rose Valley, PA, writing and birdwatching with her cat, Elliott.

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Cathleen Cohen

Cathleen Cohen is Montgomery County’s 2019 Poet Laureate. A painter, poet and teacher, she founded ArtWell’s “We the Poets” program in Philadelphia (www.theartwell.org). She has taught students of all ages from a variety of diverse cultural and faith backgrounds in the USA and in Israel. Her poems have appeared in Apiary, Baltimore Review, Cagibi, Chrysalis Journal, East Coast Ink, 6ix, Philadelphia Stories and other publications. In 2017 her chapbook “Camera Obscura” won a Moonstone Arts Press prize. She received the Interfaith Relations Award from the Montgomery County PA Human Rights Commission and the Public Service Award from National Association of Poetry Therapy. Her paintings are on view at Cerulean Arts gallery in Philadelphia (https://ceruleanarts.com)

cpoems@gmail.com

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