In Your Own Voice: Performing Poetry (by David Yezzi)

A quick plug for a class I'm teaching at the 92nd Street Y beginning in February: It's on reading poetry--your own and others'--aloud to an audience (very useful for poets and public speakers).

Here's the description: This hands-on performance workshop, combining literary and theatrical practice, looks closely at what makes a poetry reading compelling, clear and resonant. Through textual analysis, vocal technique and group discussion and critique, students will create a pliant and powerful reading style to best serve their work. (Below is an anthology--my favorite when I was a kid--that has a poetry reading on the cover.)

The class runs for eight Tuesdays beginning February 10, 2009 (6:30pm-9:00pm) at the 92^nd Street Y (Lexington Avenue and 92^nd Street).

You can read more about it and register here.