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Workshop: Leopard Without Spots, or, Postformalist Poetry
This course is all about taking a traditional whole-poem form---like the sonnet, the villanelle, the sestina---and using the idea of…
Workshop: Duets: Writing Poems With Music
This workshop explores a number of ways to ease the drafting of a poem by leaning on, harmonizing with, borrowing…
Workshop: Say What You Don't Mean
This class is a workshop-centered attempt to try out some strategies of negation--saying what you mean by saying what you…
Workshop: The Sonnet and Its Discontents
We've all read and probably memorized a sonnet or two from Shakespeare, and we may even have been asked to…
Workshop: Poetry Chapbooks and Manuscripts (Two Weekend Intensive) at Lighthouse Writers Workshop
In this workshop, we’ll learn how to germinate new poems from the seeds of our own best work. In the…

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