Poetry Workshop: Hermit Crab Poetry - Finding Form
Week 7 | M, Tu, W, Th, F | CLA Alumni Hall Poetry Room | Ages 18 and up
Hermit Crab Poetry is inspired by the name given to creative non-fiction that uses, like a hermit crab, some found form to find refuge in. These forms are as varied as you can imagine: from footnotes to application forms, from questionnaires to autopsy reports, from blackouts to erasures. Poetry is, at least in part, a quest for form, to find the shape that can home our poems and our lives. We will explore this recent burgeoning of new, hybrid, and found forms, as well as working within and in dialogue with received/traditional forms. Flexible. (ages 18+)
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Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (2018), and Sand Opera (2015). His work has garnered the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Fellowship, two NEAs, seven Ohio Arts Council Grants, the Hunt Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Lyric Poetry Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, and Core Faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
