Shapeshifting Poetry – Form by Form

Start with a free verse poem or a part of a poem or a thought of what you’d like to put in a poem. Each day we will work our poetry into a variety of forms. Maybe what you have will work well as a triolet, a clerihew, or a quatern. We’ll put our thoughts into rondeaus, ghazals, and sonnets. We will see if meter and/or rhyming are the way to go. We may end up right back at free verse, but we’ll have a good challenge exploring possibilities.

This workshop is a continuation of Ellie O'Leary's April 2022 National Poetry Month project on Breathe Here (breatheherepoetry.blogspot.com). 

Instructor Ellie O'Leary is the Poet Laureate of Amesbury, Massachusetts and author of Breathe Here (North Country Press, 2021). She co-facilitates Fall Writerfest along with Nelle Stanton.