Restricted to Jimenez-Porter Writers' House students.

We are living through a revolution in poetic practice. Over the last two decades, many writers have revisited received forms (and invented new ones) to reclaim poetry as a medium for engaging urgent issues of our time, including the climate crisis and systemic discrimination across race, class, gender identity and expression, sexuality, disability, ethnicity, religion, and national origin. This workshop invites you to read this exciting new work and experiment alongside contemporary poets who use formal constraint as both catalyst and subject. Together, we ll explore radically reimagined versions of cross-cultural poetic forms such as thesonnet, sestina, pantoum, ghazal, ekphrasis, erasure, prose and letter poems, as well as hybrid, digital, found, documentary, and emergent forms (including the bop, duplex, golden shovel, and collaborative work).