On
Thursday morning, Levine joined Professor Ann Townsend ’85 and eight
students from her advanced poetry-writing workshop to share thoughts on
creativity and craft. - See more at:
http://www.denison.edu/theden/2013/09/what-poetry-is/#sthash.LEBiN3wA.dpuf
(Philip Levine & Ann Townsend)
On
Thursday morning, Levine joined Professor Ann Townsend ’85 and eight
students from her advanced poetry-writing workshop to share thoughts on
creativity and craft. After asking some of the students which poets
they’d been enjoying recently, Levine talked about the writers who
influenced him in his youth: T.S. Eliot, whose “vignettes of city life”
inspired him to find the poetic in his native Detroit; William Butler
Yeats, who possessed “a speaking voice that’s also a singing voice”; and
Wilfred Owen, whose thoughts on war resonated deeply with him as a
young man coming of age during World War II.
One student asked Levine when he first began to write poetry. “It began as a verbal exercise, a kind of communion with the universe,” he replied. At 13, he would go outside after dinner and make up poems — although, he recalls, “I did not call them poems, because they had no resemblance to
- See more at: http://www.denison.edu/theden/2013/09/what-poetry-is/#sthash.LEBiN3wA.dpuf
One student asked Levine when he first began to write poetry. “It began as a verbal exercise, a kind of communion with the universe,” he replied. At 13, he would go outside after dinner and make up poems — although, he recalls, “I did not call them poems, because they had no resemblance to
- See more at: http://www.denison.edu/theden/2013/09/what-poetry-is/#sthash.LEBiN3wA.dpuf
On
Thursday morning, Levine joined Professor Ann Townsend ’85 and eight
students from her advanced poetry-writing workshop to share thoughts on
creativity and craft. After asking some of the students which poets
they’d been enjoying recently, Levine talked about the writers who
influenced him in his youth: T.S. Eliot, whose “vignettes of city life”
inspired him to find the poetic in his native Detroit; William Butler
Yeats, who possessed “a speaking voice that’s also a singing voice”; and
Wilfred Owen, whose thoughts on war resonated deeply with him as a
young man coming of age during World War II.
One student asked Levine when he first began to write poetry. “It began as a verbal exercise, a kind of communion with the universe,” he replied. At 13, he would go outside after dinner and make up poems — although, he recalls, “I did not call them poems, because they had no resemblance to
- See more at: http://www.denison.edu/theden/2013/09/what-poetry-is/#sthash.LEBiN3wA.dpuf
One student asked Levine when he first began to write poetry. “It began as a verbal exercise, a kind of communion with the universe,” he replied. At 13, he would go outside after dinner and make up poems — although, he recalls, “I did not call them poems, because they had no resemblance to
- See more at: http://www.denison.edu/theden/2013/09/what-poetry-is/#sthash.LEBiN3wA.dpuf
On
Thursday morning, Levine joined Professor Ann Townsend ’85 and eight
students from her advanced poetry-writing workshop to share thoughts on
creativity and craft. After asking some of the students which poets
they’d been enjoying recently, Levine talked about the writers who
influenced him in his youth: T.S. Eliot, whose “vignettes of city life”
inspired him to find the poetic in his native Detroit; William Butler
Yeats, who possessed “a speaking voice that’s also a singing voice”; and
Wilfred Owen, whose thoughts on war resonated deeply with him as a
young man coming of age during World War II.
One student asked Levine when he first began to write poetry. “It began as a verbal exercise, a kind of communion with the universe,” he replied. At 13, he would go outside after dinner and make up poems — although, he recalls, “I did not call them poems, because they had no resemblance to
- See more at: http://www.denison.edu/theden/2013/09/what-poetry-is/#sthash.LEBiN3wA.dpuf
One student asked Levine when he first began to write poetry. “It began as a verbal exercise, a kind of communion with the universe,” he replied. At 13, he would go outside after dinner and make up poems — although, he recalls, “I did not call them poems, because they had no resemblance to
- See more at: http://www.denison.edu/theden/2013/09/what-poetry-is/#sthash.LEBiN3wA.dpuf
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