LIVE via ZOOM: 2pm-4pm (Eastern Time)

Half a millennium after entering English, the sonnet retains its fascination for poets in the Anglophone world, even as the form and what it can do is constantly being transformed in contemporary hands. In this generative workshop, we’ll review the basics of the sonnet’s form and history, before exploring the resurgence of the sonnet since 2000, and engaging newer (and older!) strategies for writing our own sonnets. Working in the sonnet activates a powerful legacy, and we will discuss how to both engage and resist the what the sonnet has been and what the sonnet has meant. Some students may wish to work toward a sonnet sequence or a sonnet crown. One sonnet does tend to lead to another.