The Course:


Show, Don’t Tell: Show What You Felt, Saw & Tasted

Shaping Poems with Simile, Metaphor & Haiku

Form: Line Breaks, Stanza & Structure

Repetition, Rhythm and Blues

Who’s Talking and Why? - Aspects of Voice

Persona Poems are Shape Shifting

Archetypal Images - The Emotional Experience

Narrative and Lyric Work Together

Ordinary Speech, Heightened by Careful Crafting

Revision and Writer’s Block

Polishing and Publishing



Place: 305 # 1420 Towers Street
(Guy metro exit Saint-Mathieu, 24 Bus)
Starts: Sep. 18, 2005 to Nov. 20, 2005
Sundays 6:00 - 8:00 pm
$110 incl. Materials (10 weeks)


All workshops include: discussion on the craft writing time and in-class critiquing