America/Chicago
Register here https://www.eventbrite.com/.../metaphor-the-real-wrapped... to attend this hour-and-a-half workshop by Arkansas Poet Laureate Suzanne U. Rhodes. She will give a brief overview of figures of speech as literary devices, demonstrating their powerful agency in delivering idea and emotion. Then Suzanne will talk specifically about metaphor and simile, offering examples and leading participants in a couple of short writing exercises. Finally, she will provide a poetry prompt, and participants will compose a poem of 12-15 lines