Thursday, November 12, 2009

The craft of poems and prose


Our featured poet and fiction writer have announced the subjects for their BWC 2009 craft lectures.
Elise Levine will speak about "Narrative Thrust, Lyric Suspense."
Levine is author of the novel Requests and Dedications and the short story collection Driving Men Mad. Writes Levine: "In this lecture we’ll first consider the fundamentals of story
structure and pacing in fiction writing. And then you’ll learn how —
by deploying a variety of techniques including a heightened use of
language to temporarily suspend the forward movement of your story —
you can enhance the dynamic tension in your fiction."
Poet Jane Satterfield will talk about "Epistles and Other Conversations: The Poem as Letter". Her poetry volumes include Assignations at Vanishing Point and Shepardess with an Automatic.

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