Formal Freedom: Getting Creative with Meter and Rhyme

In this two-hour workshop with poet, translator, and editor BORIS DRALYUK we will explore the art and craft of formal poetry.

Meter and rhyme can guide and spur on the workings of a poet’s imagination, just as the limitations imposed by a canvas and a set of paints can inspire a visual artist by revealing a range of possibilities. We will look closely at poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, and other formal masters, and share our own work.

BORIS DRALYUK is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022) and the translator of Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Maxim Osipov, and other authors. His poems, translations, and criticism have appeared in the NYRB, the TLS, The New Yorker, Best American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere. Formerly editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, he is currently an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa, a Tulsa Artist Fellow, and the editor in chief of Nimrod International Journal.

Tickets: 27€

Duration: 2 hours

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