Oral Interpretation of Poetry
Lifelong Learning | Registration opens 5/1/2025 9:00 AM EDT
Oral interpretation is the art of communicating to an audience a work of literary art in its intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic entirety. In this class, we will be working on the oral interpretation of poetry. Participants will not be writing poetry, nor will anyone be performing or memorizing. Rather, oral interpretation involves working to understand the art (in this case a work of poetry) and then reading it to others so that the reader’s interpretation is revealed. In this workshop class, we will work on interaction with text, thorough analysis, rehearsal, and strict discipline in use of voice and body. I plan for this class to be very low pressure, thought-provoking, and fun for all.
Mary Beth Spore
Mary Beth Spore, Ph.D., has been a faculty member and administrator in at the University for Pittsburgh and Saint Vincent College for over 25 years. She has taught many courses in children’s and young adult literature and criticism as well as writing and speech classes. She loves teaching and learning, and seeks both in the classroom. She is a lover of children, dogs, reading, and storytelling. She is a native of western PA, and received her Ph.D. in English Education from the University of Pittsburgh.