ONLINE Poems That Rhyme: How Contemporary Poets Use Rhyme to Great Effect
One-Day Workshop | Monday, March 3, 2025
9am-12pm PT | 10am-1pm MT | 12pm-3pm ET | 1pm-4pm AT
Instructor: Marion Lougheed
MEMBER PRICE: $60.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $80.00
Ever been told that poems shouldn't rhyme? This workshop will discuss what kind of rhyming works and what doesn't in modern poetry. A lot of strong words can surface when someone mentions rhyming poems. Some people say rhyme is a relic of the past, while others love rhyming! Wherever you stand, this poetry workshop is for you. We'll look at examples of contemporary poetry that use rhyme in interesting ways. We won't just think about end rhymes, but also other kinds, such as internal rhyme. We'll even talk about rhyme-like techniques, such as assonance. Come with your thinking hat for discussion and your writing hat for trying out some of the techniques that great poets from Margaret Atwood to Paul Muldoon have employed in their work.
This class takes place online using the Zoom Web Conferencing platform.
Marion Lougheed is a writer, editor and anthropologist. Her poem "Pavane for a Dead Letter" was featured in the LCP's 2021 Poem In Your Pocket Day series, and "Rooftops" won the Prime 53 Poem Summer Challenge (Press 53). Marion runs Off Topic Publishing and ML Edits. Her flash fiction has appeared in This Will Only Take A Minute: 100 Canadian Flashes (Guernica Editions, 2022), Reflex Press and The Arcanist, among others, and was shortlisted for the Sunlight Press Flash Fiction Contest. She holds a diploma in professional writing from Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she worked for five years as a peer writing tutor.
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