Classes

On-line Poetry Class

Line and Caesura – 2012: The Elementary Structures of Poetry

Five-week on-line class, June 9, 16, 23, 30 and July 7, 2012

Cost – $60

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

~ Jules Reynard

Give your poems jet propulsion.
Fuel them at their basic level–the line.
Learn the use and value of line breaks.
Learn about enjambment.

Line is fundamental to poetry because it differentiates poetry from prose.

Caesura concerns the division of lines into units of syntax or rhetoric.

Line and caesura: Together they are what we use to paint poetry on the page–how we connect the basic units of the poem.

For more information or to register, email kennetherodgers@gmail.com or telephone Ken at (208) 340-8889. www.kennethrodgers.com

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Low Fat Fiction

How short can a story be and still contain plot, conflict, characters, meaning, epiphany?

Behold the amazing intensity of low fat fiction.

Articulate more with less.

Create muscular, super-charged prose.

5 sessions beginning May 29, 2012

Tuesdays: May 29, June 12, 19, 26, and July 3

From 7:00 to 9:00 PM

Workshop and lecture—

Come learn how to crank your mental and creative wrenches and learn how to build very short stories, or tune up your skills.

We will discuss concepts, some of the masters’ works and we will write, write, write.

Cost: $100.00

Please call Ken Rodgers at (208) 340-8889 for more information.

Seating is limited.