In this generative workshop we will consider looking outside traditional forms in order to make poems--a restaurant menu, for example, instead of a sonnet; or online dating profiles instead of a sestina. Think dictionary entries, form letters, FAQs, multiple choice questionnaires, or amazon reviews. So often these quotidian forms help get us to emotional truths and say something beyond the ordinary. 

Important Notes: 

• All sales are final.
• The workshop will take place via Zoom, and the meeting link will be sent via email 48 hours before the session
  

About the facilitator:

Denise Duhamel’s (she/her) most recent books of poetry are Pink Lady (Pitt Poetry Series, 2025), Second Story (2021), and Scald (2017). Blowout (2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. In Which (2024) is a winner of the Rattle Chapbook Prize. She and the late Maureen Seaton co-authored five collections, the most recent of which was CAPRICE: Collaborations Collected, Uncollected, and New, Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is a distinguished university professor in the MFA program at Florida International University in Miami.