Fun with Poetic Form - A Five-Part Workshop

Before Language Poetry, before Free Verse, there was form. Ancient and new. Received and reinvented. During this 5-week workshop, participants will play with various types of poems – from the sonnet to the sestina, the ghazal to the pantoum. We’ll look at how poets engage with the rules of form and constraint as a strategy toward experimentation.

Each week there will be explorations of different forms, along with in-class writing exercises designed to help generate new material. This workshop series is open to writers of any genre, at any level who want time to write as well as tricks and tips to inspire them.

Pamela Hart is writer in residence at the Katonah Museum of Art where she teaches and manages an arts-in-education program. Her first book, Mothers Over Nangarhar, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton prize in poetry, was published last year by Sarabande Books. She received a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is poetry editor for the Afghan Women's Writing Project and Afghan Voices, Her chapbook, The End of the Body, was published by Toadlily Press and her work has been published in various online and print journals.

Please register. By registering for session one on March 17 you will be registered for the whole series.