Making Order From Chaos: Turning Our Wild Lives Into Organized Received Formswtih Alexis Sears (via Zoom)

Life is unpredictable and some things, good and bad, we simply cannot make sense of. In this workshop, we will focus on taking significant events from our pasts and attempting to organize them into received formal poems. Forms such as the sonnet, villanelle, and sestina give us poets the opportunity to take control, using strict rules and structure to transform the incomprehensible into breathtaking, masterful works of art.

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.

All HVWC scholarship applications will be available on Dec 1 and will be due on Dec 15 for all winter/spring 2024 classes.

Alexis Sears is the author of Out of Order, winner of the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and the Poetry by the Sea Book Award: Best Book of 2022. Her work appears in Best American Poetry, Cortland Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Rattle, and elsewhere. A Los Angeles native, she is Editor-at-Large of the Northwest Review and Contributing Editor of Literary Matters.