Come Into Your Shell: Non-Literary Forms In Poetry with Denise Duhamel (Zoom)

In this generative workshop we will consider looking outside traditional forms in order to make poems--a restaurant menu, for example, instead of a sonnet; or online dating profiles instead of a sestina. Think dictionary entries, form letters, FAQs, multiple choice questionnaires, or Amazon reviews. So often these quotidian forms help get us to emotional truths and say something beyond what these ordinary forms suggest. 

BIO

Denise Duhamel’s most recent books of poetry are Pink Lady (Pittsburgh, 2025), Second Story (2021) and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She and the late Maureen Seaton co-authored five collections, the most recent of which was CAPRICE (Collaborations: Collected, Uncollected, and New) (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). Her nonfiction publications include The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose (with Julie Marie Wade, Noctuary Press, 2019). A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the…