
F-it, Let's Just Write a Sestina
Sat, Sep 23
|Zoom
The world is falling apart anyway, before we all die, let's just do it, let us write a damn sestina. ARE YOU WITH ME!?


Time & Location
Sep 23, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM CDT
Zoom
About the Event
The sestina is a 12th Century French form of poem that's 39 lines long. Yes, that one-sentence description raises red flags, doesn't it? Many fear it. But the world is falling apart anyway, before we all die, let's just do it, let us write a damn sestina.
We'll talk about more recently-written sestinas to get familiar with the form, then plot our ascent using maps, graphs, depth charts, and sorcery (the first three are there as a tongue-in-cheek lie, the 4th, though, is the truth).
ARE YOU WITH ME!?
MATT MASON is the Nebraska State Poet and was Executive Director of the Nebraska Writers Collective from 2009-2022. Through the US State Department, he has run workshops in Botswana, Romania, Nepal, and Belarus.
Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council.
Tickets
Let's Just Write a Sestina
Here is your Zoom link to Matt Mason's workshop "F-it, Let's Just Write a Sestina" hosted by the Nebraska Poetry Society Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86235189318?pwd=Yjh6Um9vWUJwNzh2TUczVDRiRVRhZz09 Meeting ID: 862 3518 9318 Passcode: 448944 One tap mobile +16694449171,,86235189318#,,,,*448944# US +16699006833,,86235189318#,,,,*448944# US (San Jose)
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