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Duke Arts Create: The Sound is the Gold

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Workshop/Short Course Art Writing

Wed, Apr 15, 2026

5:30 PM – 7 PM EDT (GMT-4)

Allen Building 314

421 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27710, United States

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The best poems often communicate before they are understood. They have an unparaphrasable magic, a quality of enchantment and surprise that sets them apart from ordinary speech. This may have to do with such things as metre and rhyme, with dramatic voice, or simply with uncanny couplings of words. Our workshop takes its lead from this nugget by Robert Frost: “The sound is the gold in the ore.” Guided by the example of some exceptional poems, we will work through several exercises focussed on letting sound deepen us into veins of thought we may never have reached on our own.

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Allen Building 314

421 Chapel Drive, Durham, NC 27710, United States

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