June Lyceum Series: Samantha Strong Murphey – Repetition: Maker Of Mood & Meaning

Welcome to the lyceum. These free, monthly workshops are held on the third Saturday of the month, and offer writers of every genre and skill level an opportunity to learn, experiment and develop their craft. We hope you’ll join us!

Together we’ll examine repetition’s role in poetry, looking closely at how anaphora and epistophe build meaning and create mood. What kind of lineage are we stepping into when we employ repeition in a poem? Where is the line between effective repetition and overkill? When does repetition signal a love of language and when does signal a distrust of language? Can both work? Come ready to repeat yourself.

Justin Hackworth

Samantha Strong Murphey (she/her) has an MFA in poetry from NYU and has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and Vermont Studio Center. Sam taught writing at UT-Dallas and is a reader for Sontag Mag. Her work has been published by Rattle, Crab Creek Review, and North American Review and is forthcoming in The Missouri Review, RADAR, MER and SWWIM. Her manuscript “Bad Prophet” was a finalist for the Trio Award from Trio House Press.