Are you wanting to develop your own spoken word, slam poetry and performance poetry pieces? This class will take you through the CREATIVE PROCESS to go all from the empty page through to having a piece you can perform on the stage.

This class is for you if you are a poet or if you just love words or if you have been watching YouTube clips of performance poetry and really want to give it a try. It is an introductory level class, so even if you have never written poetry or performed poetry before you can do it. The class is also aimed at any age group- from 12 year olds to 70 year olds. All you gotta have is an open and creative and curious mind.

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We will be going through a simple creative process that will have you creating your very own developed and finished spoken word piece.

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The class is split into FIVE lessons with THREE videos in each. Here is what we will cover:

Lesson 1: Poetry Performance and Toolbox

This lesson is all about the potential of what poetry can be...that it might just be something that could change your life and the world around you. Through the performance of Joel’s own poetry as well as his reflecting on what poetry can be within the world students will be creating a poetry toolbox through reflecting on what performative and literary tools Joel uses in his works.

Lesson 2: Poetic Process and INSPIRATION.

This lesson is an introduction into Joel’s poetic process looking at the steps of INSPIRATION, CREATION, CONSTRUCTION and INVITATION. In this lesson Joel focusses in on where we get our inspiration for poetry writing from. By the end of this lesson students will have written two poetic pieces.

Lesson 3: CREATION

This lesson focusses in on the initial creative dump in the poetry process. How to break past the foreboding blankness of the empty page. By the end of this class students will have written two more poetic pieces.

Lesson 4: CONSTRUCTION

This lesson focusses on how students can take the initial writing they have done in the INSPIRATION and CREATION section and now develop and subsequently edit these pieces further into a poetic piece that they could bring out into the world. By the end of this class students will have constructed and developed one of their pieces.

Lesson 5: INVITATION

This lesson focusses in on the performance side of poetry. Inviting people in to experience the poetic works that they have been writing through looking at Rhythm, Embodiment, Authenticity, Dynamics and Intentionality. BY the end of this lessons students will have worked out the performance aspect of their piece.

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Each of these lessons also has a worksheet that accompanies it, for you to take the teachings and work out how they play out in your own creative process.

You literally will have at least a few poems ready to go by the end of these lessons. So come on...get into it!

Yatharth Rajput

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