Academy of Intentional Magic/It's Elemental: The Art of Revision

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It's Elemental: The Art of Revision

  • Course
  • 16 Lessons

Water, fire, earth, air: each of these elements has characteristics that we can apply to our poems to engage the senses. This workshop takes as its premise that the best poetry happens when it invokes one or more of these basic elements. Through this lens, and accompanied by concrete exercises and craft techniques recommended by the greats, you will watch your works-in-progress mature to their full potential.

Contents

Water/Rhythm

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If wine comes in at the mouth, and love comes in at the eye, poetry most certainly comes in at the ear.

About Water/Rhythm
Lesson
Exercises /Assignment

Earth/Architecture

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Every architect is, necessarily, a great poet. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

About Earth/Architecture
Poetry & Architecture
Poetry's Habitable Structures
Assignment

Fire/Metamorphosis

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Metaphor is verbal lightening. The most scintillating move a poem can make. ~ Baron Wormser

About Fire/Metamorphosis
A Meditation on Metaphor
Exercise
Assignment/Prompts

Air/Atmosphere

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Air = atmosphere, the poem's spiritual center, its tone, its breath. Tone is the prime indicator of one's spirit, how one felt when writing the poem. It is a prayer, an utterance, a moan.

About Air/Atmosphere
Reverie in Open Air
Exercise
Endings
Assignment: Skywriting