Poetic Form as a Means of Revision with Trevor Ketner (Zoom)

We will work together to understand how to see poetic forms not as restrictive, prescriptive rulesets that limit creativity, but as launch pads and sandboxes for revising our poems. By reading poems that work in, with, and against form, writing in relationship to form ourselves, and understanding the various ways in which form can help us recontextualize our own poems when they aren’t quite working, participants will leave this session with a new set of tools for revising their own poems. Forms we will cover include: pantoums, sestinas, haibuns, burning haibuns, ghazals, and others.

Writers should bring one or two of their in-progress poems that they've been working on but can't quite seem to get over the finish line. We will be applying some of the strategies during the session to those poems. All experience levels welcome.

BIO

Trevor Ketner is the author of The Wild Hunt Divinations: A Grimoire (Wesleyan…