Workshop: Poetry

Form and Freedom

A Poetry Workshop with Kristen Case

This workshop will be focused on breaking out of patterns and generating new poems, working with the fundamental elements of any creative practice: freedom and form. Alternating between exercises designed to free us from linguistic and mental habits with sessions that introduce a diverse array of formal constraints, we will discover the deep interplay between wildness and rigor, creativity and constraint, freedom and form. Our goal will be to leave the retreat with brand new work we are utterly surprised to have written. 

 SUBMIT

Poets do not need to submit work ahead of time. The workshop will focus on generating new material in the first two sessions, and then the group will work with that material during the third session.

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Kristen Case is the author of two books of poems. Her third, Daphne, is forthcoming next year from Tupelo Press. She is the recipient of a Macdowell fellowship and a two-time winner of the Maine literary award in poetry. She also writes books and essays about 19th-century American literature and teaches English at University of Maine Farmington.