PSNY Virtual Workshop: Sound as Sense & Sense as Sound

An all-levels generative virtual workshop with poet Reed Turchi!

We’re quick to say we know a poem “by heart,” but it’s in our inner ear the music of the lines reside. This workshop aims to help poets of any stage discover the sonic patterning already present in their own poems, and to offer generative sound-based exercises, no matter how “music-y” (or not!) a poet may think themselves to be. We will look at poems by Robert Lowell, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Larry Levis, Reginald Dwayne Betts, and Margaret Ross to see a variety of methods of sonic patterning, and to see that a poet’s “sense of sound” is not just a characteristic of their writing style but an essential tool in communicating how they experience the world.

About the Instructor: Reed Turchi is a poet and musician from Swannanoa, North Carolina. His poems have been published in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Narrative Magazine, and The Los Angeles Review, and he has won a Grammy Award and received an Emmy Nomination for his music. Turchi earned his MFA from Warren Wilson College, where he was awarded the Ellen Bryant Voigt scholarship, and he has received fellowships and support from Breadloaf Writers Conference, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He currently resides in Brooklyn.

**This workshop will take place on Zoom.**