Metrics and emotion in your own poems

Thursdays from October 6 to November 3
From 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Workshops

Price: €90 general admission / €35 students
Open to UNAV students and anyone interested in writing poetry.

Workshop led by Joseluís González
A workshop on verse

In the prime of his youth, in his third collection of poems, Claudio Rodríguez closes "Salvation from Danger" with these verses:

"Dangerous is the footprint, the promise/between the offering of things/and that of life. //Miserable is the moment if it is not song."

With these words, the poet invites us to celebrate life, the present. Would that final hendecasyllable have the same force if it were *"If it is not song, the moment is miserable"? Or this other one: *"If miserable, the song, not the moment"? 

"We are already the past that we will be" is equivalent to "We will be the past that we already are"?

In this poetry workshop, we will work on the fundamentals of writing and how to expand our expressive possibilities. In seven sessions, you will learn the basics of meter and poetic creativity.

More than a workshop, we aspire for these sessions to become a kind of workshop. A workshop in the sense that the dictionary defines it: a craft workshop, especially for baking and pastry making, and one dedicated to tailoring, ironing, and sewing.

PROGRAM 1. Train your ear. Rhythm in poetry.
2. Metrical "licenses" and fishing licenses. The art of meter?
3. Exercises, readings. Techniques and non-techniques. Great poets and not-so-great poets.
4. Composing sonnets. Summits and vertigo.
5. "Rama, rema, rima, roma, rummmmm((bbb))a." Is writing crying?
6. The moment of truth. The truth of the now. One's own creations.
7. Recital and plaquette.

Joseluís González

He isa professor, twice winner of the poetry prize awarded by the former Ministry of Education and Science, author of the poetry collection De todo esto yo soy(Of All This I Am), and contributor to several poetry magazines. He is a regular contributor to the Museum in workshops related to writing and the pen.