Event Title: Story and Song: Finding Direction and Momentum in the Music of our Words

Date: Wednesday November 1

Time: 6:00 - 8:00pm PDT

Location: Online via Zoom. Link will be sent via email to registrants.

Sometimes it’s a slog to write a scene, and sometimes a poem just feels flat. Tuning our ears to language can often break us out of old ruts and help us find new possibility in our writing. In this workshop, we’ll look closely at the *sound* of the language were using, and the musical and rhythmic devices we can lean into to enliven our prose and poetry, amplify meaning, even find where we need to go. We’ll try a few techniques together and you’ll leave with several more in your toolbox.

Rachel Richardson is the author of two previous books of poems, Copperhead and Hundred-Year Wave (Carnegie Mellon University Press), and a forthcoming collection, SMOTHER. She is co-founder of the Berkeley literary center Left Margin LIT and serves as Poetry Advisor for the Bay Area Book Festival. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the New York Times, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere.

Registration Details

Registration is required. This creative writing event is hosted by the MFA in Creative Writing program at Dominican University as a service to the public and there is no charge for participating. Dominican University of California is a nonprofit institution. To make a donation to the MFA Scholarship Fund visit our site here.

Contact mfa@dominican.edu with any questions.