Stylizing Your Poetic Structure | Workshop

In this workshop we will discuss visual formatting choices for poems near the final draft, including classic and modern typography, line breaks and stanza structure. We will also briefly touch on the inner formatting structures that could help actualize your chapbook’s aesthetic. These inner poetic topics include ghost sonnets, enjambments, tonkas/haikus, and narrative arcs. 

The mission of this workshop is to better understand syntax and typographical cues that form while presenting your work. We will look at poets CA Conrad, Ricky Larentis, Akiko Yosano, Yaya Yao, Natalie Diaz, Annie Grizzle, and N.H Pritchard. Students will bring a piece they are willing to reformat into a new draft emphasizing on visual interpretation and new techniques discussed in class.

Requirements: Zoom, Word or Google Doc, 1 -2 poems ready to format in class. 

Duration: 2 hours - Size 5-15 students
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About the Instructor:
Diana Forgione (they/them) is a non-binary writer and workshop facilitator in the Northwest region. Diana uses poetry to examine the underlying nature of humanity as it’s experienced; attempting to discern the essence of love, trauma, lust, and queerness. They are the Co-Founder of Death Rattle Writers Festival, Head Editor for lit-mag OROBORO, and judge for the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. They have read their work with Zines & Things, Ghost & Projectors, and Unchaste Readers. Their work can be found at Cobra Milk, HomologyLit, Reality Beach and The Cabin among other places.