Poetry Workshop with Todd Boss
Poetry Workshop with Todd Boss
July 11, 2026
01:00PM - 04:00PM
GSWP presents a one-day workshop "The Soul of Poetry is Sound: Making Muscular Music" with poet Todd Boss. By attending to the reader’s “ear,” we control their breath, and all the effects of their experience with our words. This generative course from a “master of internal rhyme” (Georgia Review) will start with the preverbal musical fundamentals of syntax and rocket through the rhythmsphere into the spooky ether of aural energy. We’ll sound the hammers and anvils of ear-training while attuning to breath, buried and slant rhyme, sonic echo, rhythm-bending, and vocality to recall how poetry is ultimately a sonic/somatic pleasure, built on waves.
Admission:
$75.00. Attendees will also need to purchase a $3 UNCA Visitor Parking Permit. Participants will need: 1. a recording device (smartphone okay), 2. at least two of your own poems (works in progress okay), 3. writing tools of your choice, and 4. one piece of music you love (ready to play aloud, optional).
$75.00. Attendees will also need to purchase a $3 UNCA Visitor Parking Permit. Participants will need: 1. a recording device (smartphone okay), 2. at least two of your own poems (works in progress okay), 3. writing tools of your choice, and 4. one piece of music you love (ready to play aloud, optional).