Naming the Song: A Making & Mending Workshop

In A Primer for Poets (2018), Gregory Orr presents a “theory of language,” based on language's functions of naming, singing, saying, and imagining. In this workshop, you’ll investigate these four modes of language and how to make the best use of them in our poetry. You’ll read excerpts from Orr’s work, then, using these modes as templates, participants will either “make” new poems or “mend” old ones.