Roundup: Reading it By Ear

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In our Roundups segment, we’re looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. We explore posts from our archives as well as other top literary magazines and websites, centered on a certain theme to help you jump-start your week.

We’ve had a few posts lately at our blog about the aural aspects of writing, so we decided to roundup some posts on the connection of silent, physical writing to the act of reading, speaking, and listening.

From Ploughshares:

  • We recently posted Amber Kelly-Anderson’s “Writing by Ear,” where she advises you to play with your words, Seuss-like.
  • Thomas Lee asks if you should really try to recreate how people really speak with your dialogue – or if it just sounds fake – in “The Way We Talk.”

From Around the Web:

  • Revisit assonance, consonance, alliteration, cadence, and repetition with Constance Hale in “The Sound of a Sentence.”
  • “For a few years, I have been speaking my poems onstage with jazz musicians…” Robert Pinksy on “The Sounds Poems Make.”

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