Writing the Forms of Poetry

ABOUT THIS CLASS

This is a 8-week virtual class using the Zoom platform.  

Thursdays: September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27

6:30 - 8:00 pm CST

A remote 8-week course presented in a workshop format that introduces participants to different forms of poetry and approaches to writing those different forms, such as free verse, prose poems, haiku and tanka, sonnets and blank verse, couplets, lyrics and lyrical forms. Participants will leave the course with a better understanding of different forms of poetry, approaches to writing in those forms, and a collection of 6 to 8 poems. No texts though many poets, poems, examples, sites and sources will be shared in the course

Shadd Piehl is a fifth-generation North Dakotan, Shadd Piehl’s poetry has appeared in the anthologies, Between Earth and Sky: Contemporary Cowboy Poets, Maverick Western Verse, Brushstrokes and Balladeers, and the magazines Aluminum Canoe, Pemmican, Red Weather, Dry Crik Review, and On Second Thought, among others. An associate poet laureate for the state of North Dakota, he has been a featured poet multiple times at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV. A private investigator and adjunct English instructor, Shadd lives along Crown Butte Creek in the Heart River valley west of Mandan with his family.

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