While many are familiar with sonnets, sestinas, and villanelles, they may not realize that there are new poetic forms created all the time. Whether it’s Jericho Brown’s Duplex or Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel, Billy Collins’s Paradelle or Wendy Xu’s Tiananmen sonnets, there are lots of new forms to explore in contemporary poetry. Perhaps you’ve been intimidated but intrigued by traditional forms in poetry. Here we offer a new approach. This course is less about measured syllables and more about allowing the constructive limitations we impose on ourselves to take us in new and exciting directions. More play than punishment. Serious fun.
NO SET MEETING TIME: 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, learn how to use the platform, and access the class. Please check your spam if you don’t see it.
