LIVE via Zoom: 3-5pm (Eastern Time)

What does it mean for a poem to have “earned” its ending? And how do we craft poems that are both memorable and reward re-reading?

In this workshop, we will address these questions, as well as discuss poetic structure, counterpoise, and identify strategies for crafting surprising, yet seemingly inevitable, endings for our poems. Participants may read work by Jericho Brown, Elizabeth Bishop, Larry Levis, Paul Tran, and Victoria Chang, among others. They’ll also experiment with different strategies of closure in their own poems.