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Have you always wanted to try your hand at a sonnet? A vilanelle? A sestina? In order to understand how poems are made, we’ll spend this course examining the rules and structure involved with writing in received forms.
We will test Robert Frost’s dictum that writing without form is like playing tennis with the net down. How dependent are we on form? How do we write in form? How do we then break form and make it our own? How do we match form and content to create powerful, musical and compelling poems? We will, over the course of the week, through imitation and experiment, create our own formal poems. This workshop is suitable for poets at all levels of experience.
Lorna Knowles Blake: BA, Trinity ... view more »
ADMISSION INFO
$380
Phone: 508-349-7511
Email: info@castlehill.org
Website: https://www.castlehill.org/workshops-2017/2017/7/17/formal-poetry-writin...