Poetry & Music Workshop

A free writing workshop offered by Opera Omaha and Nebraska Writers Collective as part of their Poetry & Music Project will take place in The Joslyn’s Community Room. The workshop is recommended for youth in middle and high school (grades 4–12).

Advance registration is requested, sign-up here. 

Facilitated by Nebraska Writers Collective Teaching Artists, this workshop will help you understand the connection between poems and songs, and focus on adding musicality to your writing. The workshop covers a variety of poetical devices such as alliteration, assonance, consonance, anaphora and others and shows how these devices make a piece of writing more sonically pleasing.  

The workshop will add an additional layer of understanding for those who are interested in participating in the Poetry & Music Project.  

About the Poetry & Music Project 

The Opera Omaha Poetry & Music Project is a statewide program run in partnership with the Nebraska Writers Collective. Now in its eighth year, the Poetry & Music Project connects student writers and their words with composers to create original scores and explore the connections between poetry and music. Students are invited to submit poems on the project, and free Poetry & Music writing workshops are available in the fall. Professional composers select poems that move them from a robust collection of writing submitted by young writers in grades K-12 and create original music inspired by the selected poems. This program culminates in public performance of the selected poems—now songs—with the poets, their families, and community partners in attendance so they can see the fruits of labor that come from this season long project.