OLLI of Greater Birmingham presents Narrative Poetry with Bob Lipman, retired poetry teacher.  The course is an exploration of narrative poems with each session focused on a different topic.  

April 3, covers how to compose a narrative poem, how to memorize one, and poetic elements such as alliteration, similes, assonance, and personification.  

April 10: Edgar Allen Poe, O’Henry, Guy de Maupassant, Robert Browning, Oliver Wendell Holmes, George Bernard Shaw, and Henry Longfellow.  

April 24: music lyrics as narratives such as “Big Bad John” and rhythmical and rhyming patterns.  

May 1: poetic fables such as “Puff the Magic Dragon”, and “The Ant and the Barber”.