Learn the tools of form to level up your poetry!
In this workshop, we’ll explore why form is relevant for contemporary poets, and how we can take advantage of form to strengthen both traditional and free-verse poems. Poetic form isn’t just meter and rhyme–it encompasses a diverse range of vessels that poems can inhabit. Form can help focus our poems, and reinforce a tone beyond our written words. When we have writer’s block, form can give us direction on how to keep writing. Over the six weeks of this workshop, we’ll write in several forms (including the haiku, sestina, pantoum, and sonnet), and explore what content works well with different types of forms. This workshop is for any level of poet, but best for poets who have at least some experience writing poems and want to learn more.
Learn at your own pace: This workshop will take place over Wet Ink, which is an asynchronous creative writing platform. The instructor will post a lesson and assignment at the beginning of each week, and participants can log in and read the lessons/post assignments/comment on other classmates’ work at their convenience. Shortly before the start date, participants will receive an invite from Wet Ink to create their login info and access the class. Please check your spam if you don’t see it.
In this workshop you’ll learn:
- How to research and presenting your own form
- How to apply skills from form poems in free verse poetry
- Plus the forms of:
- Haiku
- Sestina
- Pantoum
- Sonnet
Time requirements
- Flexible. As much or little time as you want to put in outside of class.
Materials
- All reading materials will be provided.
Who should take this workshop?
- This workshop is for any level of poet, but best for poets who have at least some experience writing poems and want to learn more.
If you need an accommodation for this workshop, please contact us at access@{{{{homeurl_non_www}}}}. We will attempt to fulfill all requests, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.
