Formal Poetry Boot Camp

Want to write some of your strongest, riskiest poems while learning a ton about craft? Then tackle some forms in this fun, encouraging class. You will be amazed at what you can do and what working in form will teach you. This class will boost your knowledge of and comfort with formal verse and hone your skills with language. Participants will learn and practice a variety of forms (syllabics, quatrains, sonnets, pantoums, villanelles, ghazals, and sestinas) while exploring how issues of craft (line, rhythm, rhyme, diction, voice) inform and strengthen your formal and free verse poems.