Metrics and emotion in your own poems

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

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

Workshop given by Joseluís González
A workshop of verses

In his youth, in his third collection of poems, Claudio Rodríguez closes "Salvación del peligro" with these verses:

"Dangerous the trace, the promise/ Between the offering of things/ and that of life. //Miserable 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 *"Si no es canto el momento es miserable"? Or this one: *"Si miserable el canto no el momento"? 

"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 basics of writing, on how to increase our expressive possibilities. In seven sessions you will learn the basics of metrics and poetic creativity.

More than a workshop, we aspire that these sessions become a kind of workshop. A workshop in the sense of the dictionary meaning: a craft workshop, especially bakery and confectionery, and a workshop dedicated to tailoring, ironing and sewing.

PROGRAM

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

Joseluís González

He is professor, twice poetry prize of the then Ministry of Education and Science, author of the poetry book De todo esto yo soy, collaborator of several poetry magazines. He is a regular collaborator of the Museum in workshops related to the pen and writing.