Indelible Music of the Line with Carlie Hoffman (via Zoom)

What makes poetry a form of music? What is the power of the poetic line? This 2-hour craft class will focus on the rhythm of the line in poetry to help students develop the music of their own poems and strengthen their own individual poetic voices. Students will examine closely the use of line breaks, syntax, as well as commonly used metrical feet in formal poetry, particularly the anapest and the dactyl, to generate their own poems that stretch, bend, and play with language to break through to strange, interesting, and indelible sounds in their own poetry.

NB: This class will be taught on Zoom and will be capped at 15 students. Registrants will receive the Zoom link to the email address they use to register. It will arrive immediately after registration so please check your spam folder if you do not receive it. It will also be sent the day before class as a reminder. Please review the course policies page before registering for any classes. Please email misty@writerscenter.org with any questions.

Carlie Hoffman is the author of three collections of poetry, One More World Like This World (Four Way Books / Forthcoming Spring 2025), When There Was Light (Four Way Books, 2023), winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and This Alaska (Four Way Books, 2021), winner of the Northern California Publishers & Authors Gold Award in poetry and a finalist for the Foreword Indies Book of the Year Award. She is the translator from the German of White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph (Atelier Éditions, Fall 2024) and Selma Meerbaum Eisinger’s Blütenlese (World Poetry Books / Forthcoming). Her honors include a 92NY “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Prize and a Poets & Writers Amy Award and her work has been published in Poetry, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Slowdown, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. Carlie is the founder and editor-in-chief of Small Orange Journal.