Personal Machines: Invented Form with Danez SmithPoets often reach towards specific forms in order to propel or control a poem, they also might be reaching for a bit of challenge or exploration, but what if we go beyond sonnets or sestinas and instead choose an experiment of our own design? For myself, while I have found that while free verse poetry has always been a succulent wilderness to venture into in search of a poem, the constraints and encouragements of form – particularly those of my own design – have allowed for reverberations between myself and the work that would not have been found unless constructed the limits of invented form. In this workshop, we will explore wonders found in recently invented forms like the bop, the burning haibun, and the Molotov sonnet before turning our attention to forms we will pattern ourselves. This workshop is for those looking to push the limits on their work as well as those looking to take the brakes off completely. In times of great violence and hope, can we break from the received forms of the times and become fugitives into new shapes and possibilities? In this workshop, we will trouble those answers together. Don't miss this amazing chance to study the craft of poetry with
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