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Find the Music [1]

Poetry [2]
9.13.22

In this week’s installment of our Craft Capsule series [3], Gregory Orr writes about the use of sounds and sound patterns in poems to produce a textural sonic experience. The essay begins by discussing four lines from Theodore Roethke’s poem “Root Cellar,” which Orr uses to exemplify how sound can “create a dense composition that is the sonic equivalent of intense odors and textures.” This week write a poem that illustrates through sound the smells, noises, and tactile experiences of a place from your childhood. Follow Orr’s advice to find what brings you pleasure in the music of words and use it in your poem.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/find_the_music [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] https://www.pw.org/content/sound_clusters