Writing with Elizabeth Bishop and Others [Carolyne Wright]
All Levels | “I don’t like teaching,” was how Elizabeth Bishop began her legendary workshops at the University of Washington, “but we’ll practice a most useful poetic strategy—writing in form.” In this workshop modeled on her example, we’ll read poems by Bishop, Hacker, Salter, Stallings, and younger neo-Formalists; explore how form helps poets achieve surprising leaps in their language; discuss received forms like pantoum, sestina, sonnet, triolet, and villanelle; nonce forms like anaphora and abecedarian; and write our own poems in form.