LIVE via Zoom: 7pm-9pm (Eastern Time)

Recent Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Carl Phillips, has written, that “at the end of the day, poetry is patterned language.” It is the relationship between pattern and what he calls, “the meaningful disruption of that pattern,” that gives poetry the muscularity required to become memorable. In this primarily generative writing workshop, participants will closely examine poems that effectively deploy, reinforce, and subvert patterns, which also helps manage tension and reader expectation. Participants will draft poems that thoughtfully consider how established pattern and disruption can create nuance and import in their work, to create, what we hope, are memorable poems. Participants may read poems by Rita Dove, Carl Phillips, Ross Gay, Jericho Brown, and Robert Hayden, among others. Participants will also have the opportunity to workshop up to two of their drafts toward revision.