Have you ever wondered why some phrases from favorite books, famous speeches, or even lyrics from popular songs linger in your mind? What exactly is it about the wording that makes them so memorable?
In this 50-minute presentation, author and poet Eileen Rajala Meyer will review nineteen different poetic devices that add audible effects, intensify emotion, heighten relationships between words, and help capture mood through sound in your writing. A program for prose and poetry writers alike, Eileen will provide examples from a dozen children’s picture books as she highlights these poetic devices. A handout (book list and term definition sheet) is included for attendees. The presentation will be followed by time for questions.
Eileen Rajala Meyer writes children’s picture books and poetry. Her new title with Reycraft Books is a rhyming ode to a favorite summer activity, Build a Sandcastle, released in April 2025. Her picture book about our sixteenth president, The Superlative A. Lincoln (Charlesbridge Publishing), was a Florida State Book Award Silver Medal Winner for Older Children’s Literature. Eileen is a member of the Rhyme Doctors team and shares articles about different aspects of writing poetry and rhyme in a free monthly newsletter. Check out EileenMeyerBooks.com to learn more.
This program is presented in collaboration with The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Conveniently located at the corner of Race and Green in downtown Urbana.
