THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SINGING

Join us in October with award winning poet Valencia Robin for an engaging 1-hour workshop in which she unpacks poetry’s two major traditions: the lyric and narrative poem. In this workshop, we’ll go beyond defining these two types of poems to demonstrating their differences as well as the necessary conditions for writing one rather than the other. After discussing various examples, participants will be given a prompt to get them writing. We’ll save time for sharing and discussion at the end.

MEETING INFORMATION

This program will be presented at our upcoming PST meeting, to be held October 11, 2025, from 2:00-4:00pm Eastern / 1:00-3:00 pm Central via Zoom. Members will be provided a link a few days prior. If you are interested in learning more about PST, check out our website. If you’d like to attend our meeting as a guest, contact us at poetrytennessee@gmail.com.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Valencia Robin is the author of Lost Cities (August 2025) and Ridiculous Light, which won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and was named one of Library Journal’s best poetry books of 2019. A recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, her poems have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and podcasts including The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, Poetry Daily, Poetry Unbound Podcast and The Virginia Quarterly Review, which awarded her the Emily Clark Balch Prize. A painter as well as a poet, Robin has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Virginia and an MFA in Art & Design from the University of Michigan. She currently teaches at East Tennessee State University.

Meeting Information

This program will be presented at our upcoming PST meeting, to be held October 11, 2025, from 2:00-4:00 pm Eastern / 1:00-3:00 pm Central via Zoom. Members will be provided a link a few days prior. If you are interested in learning more about PST, check out our website. If you’d like to attend our meeting as a guest, contact us at poetrytennessee@gmail.com.