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Duration
3 hours and 40 minutes
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Video
8 sessions
Audio and downloadable audio files for each session -
PDF Handouts
All example poems and annotations
Closing tips for the integration of skills
Highlights of the Bonus Conversation -
Bonus Material
Bonus Conversation with Chloë Goodchild about poetry and sound
The Art of Listening: Poetry and Developing Your Ear as a Writer
As writers or translators, we sometimes encounter a deeply frustrating conundrum.
We write a piece that we think says something vitally important but it doesn’t feel compelling or vivid to others. Somehow it just doesn’t speak.
How can we turn this conundrum into the vital possibility of words that are unforgettably alive?
One of the most important answers to this question is to learn to hear and command the music of words.
Just as a piece of music can stir us profoundly, so too can the music of language affect us in the very depths of our being.
Yet this aspect of writing and of language can easily be overlooked because it involves, not what we see on the page, not what we read in silence, but what we hear when we dare to read out loud. An invisible source of power and sense that helps us see what was there in the silence and makes even the silence speak.
The 7 sessions of this course are designed to help you tap into this source, in what you read, what you translate, and what you write.
Here are some of the key things you’ll learn to do:
We write a piece that we think says something vitally important but it doesn’t feel compelling or vivid to others. Somehow it just doesn’t speak.
How can we turn this conundrum into the vital possibility of words that are unforgettably alive?
One of the most important answers to this question is to learn to hear and command the music of words.
Just as a piece of music can stir us profoundly, so too can the music of language affect us in the very depths of our being.
Yet this aspect of writing and of language can easily be overlooked because it involves, not what we see on the page, not what we read in silence, but what we hear when we dare to read out loud. An invisible source of power and sense that helps us see what was there in the silence and makes even the silence speak.
The 7 sessions of this course are designed to help you tap into this source, in what you read, what you translate, and what you write.
Here are some of the key things you’ll learn to do:
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WHAT'S INCLUDED
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8 video sessions (3 hours of video)
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Audio for each session
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Downloadable audio files for each session
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PDFs of all example poems and annotations
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PDF of closing tips for the integration of skills
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PDF with highlights of the Bonus Conversation
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Bonus 40-minute conversation on poetry and sound with Chloë Goodchild
Learn to Listen as a Poet
One of the qualities that makes a great poet is the capacity to hear language in its most primal and compelling depths.
This capacity might seem out of reach for the rest of us until we realize that every poem and well-written piece of prose can become a teacher and guide to this very thing.
This course is designed to cultivate this essential sensitivity in a way that will nourish your own writing and translating.
Few practices can open more doors to the power of words than learning to listen deeply to their music.
This capacity might seem out of reach for the rest of us until we realize that every poem and well-written piece of prose can become a teacher and guide to this very thing.
This course is designed to cultivate this essential sensitivity in a way that will nourish your own writing and translating.
Few practices can open more doors to the power of words than learning to listen deeply to their music.
Connect Your Ear and Your Voice
Much is made of the importance of a writer finding their own voice, but too little attention is paid to the way a writer’s voice depends on their ear.
Through the different sessions and practices of this course, you will experience directly how developing your own ear can add additional power, grace, and nuance to everything you write and say.
Then you will not only know how words can move us, or why we fall in love with certain kinds of writing, or what makes a piece of writing come unforgettably to life, but will also see how to apply this knowledge to making your own writing more moving, beloved, and unforgettable.
Learning to listen deeply changed my life as a writer, and I hope this course will do the same for you.
Through the different sessions and practices of this course, you will experience directly how developing your own ear can add additional power, grace, and nuance to everything you write and say.
Then you will not only know how words can move us, or why we fall in love with certain kinds of writing, or what makes a piece of writing come unforgettably to life, but will also see how to apply this knowledge to making your own writing more moving, beloved, and unforgettable.
Learning to listen deeply changed my life as a writer, and I hope this course will do the same for you.
Meet the instructor
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma
Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma is an author, translator, teacher, and performer. His translation of the classical Tamil masterpiece on ethics, power, and love, The Kural: Tiruvalluvar’s Tirukkural, was published to great acclaim by Beacon Press. Other books include The Safety of Edges (poems), Give, Eat, and Live: Poems of Avvaiyar (translated from the Tamil) and Body and Earth (with the artist C.F. John). He speaks and performs widely, teaches for the Cozy Grammar series of online video courses, and has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, 4Culture, Artist Trust, and the U. S. Fulbright Program. thomaspruiksma.com
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