Creative Varieties: 5 Poems Finding Their Way

How do poets find entry points to their poems? Is it via the image, a poetic form, an idea, an emotion, or something less easily named? In this short class, I’ll offer my sense of how vastly different creative practices can be engaged to enlarge one’s poetic vision and articulation. The mind of haiku is not the mind of free verse, for instance, yet both minds can be beautifully activated through study and practice. We’ll traverse international terrain to discuss poems that I hope will inspire you to begin and begin and begin, but not always in the same way. . . . All levels of experience are welcome!

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KATIE FORD is the author of four books of poems, , and , all published by Graywolf Press. was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the Rilke Prize. was named among the “Best Books of 2008” …