A poem creates a voice. It does this with verb tense, grammar, vocabulary, rhythm, and silence. It may be a quiet or loud voice. A poem makes an unheard voice possible. A poem can create a voice. It may be in a poem that we discover or hear our own voices for the first time. I recognized when I started writing that I was writing in the rhythm of my mother’s voice. The ways voice is created in a poem may help you find your poetic voice and what you want to say. These are radical voice lessons from poetry for all writers. The cost above is for one on one class.

1 Lyric tense

2 The barbaric yawp

3 Persona: other as self, self as other

4 Inner voice/inscape

5 Apostrophe: calling into presence

6 Silences and interstices