Grounding in the basics of poetic form, from metered verse to free verse. Students study models of a different formal approach every week and practice and workshop their own poems in the form. Each workshop focuses on a specific formal practice area, such as blank verse or the sonnet; some workshops are sequenced into ten-week blocks meant to allow for sustained work in related practice areas. Workshops in blank verse and the sonnet, for example, can be taken individually or as one extended course exploring meter and rhyme. No prior experience writing or reading poems necessary. Meant for beginning writers and readers of poetry, as well as more experienced poets wishing to shore up aspects of their formal practice.
*Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all workshops will be conducted online until further notice.*
Winter-Spring 2021
February 14–March 14
Blank Verse SOLD OUT!
Jason Koo / online
February 24—March 31
Living Vivid: Meditations on Mortality SOLD OUT!
Shira Erlichman / online
March 21–April 18
The Sonnet SOLD OUT!
Joshua Mehigan / online
NEW SECTION ADDED!
March 25–April 22
The Sonnet
Joshua Mehigan / online
March 25–May 6
Poetics Lab: Generating a Practice of Poetry SOLD OUT!
Emily Skillings / online
