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Experiments in Form: Received Poetic Forms Turned Inside Out
a poetry workshop w/ Jarrett Eakins
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
6:00-9:00
Cost: $10
To register please email casakeepers[at]casalibre.org
Class Description
What makes a sonnet a sonnet? Does a sonnet have to rhyme? Can it be surreal? How might a L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poet write sonnet? This workshop will be an exercise in turning the traditional into the avant-garde. We’ll look at a few traditional forms of poetry (sonnet, pantoum, and renga, to name a few) and discuss the ways contemporary writers have subverted and exploded the expectations surrounding such a poem’s construction, with an eye towards learning something about our own craft. Then we’ll engage in a few writing exercises designed to familiarize us with the constraints of a few forms, but also designed to open our minds and help us understand the word “constraint” in the broadest terms possible. Participants may be of any experience level, and do not need previous experience with poetry in form.
Teacher Bio:
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Jarrett Eakins is a second year MFA candidate who studies and teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona. He serves as Contests and Events Coordinator of the Sonora Review, Graduate Assistant at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and Editorial Assistant for the Fairy Tale Review. He has published both poetry and fiction. His work can be found in Enizagam, Weave, Forbs&Fifth, and Snag//Mag, and has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, Poets & Writers Magazine, and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. He hails originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the great city of Carnegie's steel and Warhol's irony.