Name: Why Rhyme (V)
Start: 2025-06-11T13:30:00-0600
End: 2025-06-11T15:30:00-0600

Wednesday June 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT

Poets have long known that rhyme is an effective tool that can enhance the overall meaning and impact of a poem. When used well, rhyme not only brings together unexpected words, but can also make a poem more ear-pleasing and creates a kind of expectation and aural satisfaction. Is rhyme a thing of the past, is the pendulum due to swing in the other direction; or might there be room for a variety of types of rhyme applicable to contemporary poetry? In this course, we’ll consider these and other questions.

Speakers

Jodie Hollander

Instructor

Jodie Hollander was raised in a family of classical musicians. She studied poetry in England, and her work has been published in journals such as The Poetry Review, The Yale Review, PN Review, The Dark Horse, The Rialto, Verse Daily, The New Criterion, Australia’s Best Poems of... Read More →

Wednesday June 11, 2025 1:30pm - 3:30pm MDT
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