Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 5:00PM - 7:00PM
Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. General registration opens on Friday, December 12th at 10:00AM.
This is a poetry workshop about subverting expectations, breaking patterns, and doing too much. How do we write poems that crack through the haze of decorum? How do we say it like it is, but without reproducing cliches? How do we render emotional intensity in our craft, not just our content? That is: how do poets break rules in a way that works? In this workshop, we will look at several poems that make audacious moves, swing big, and go a little overboard, in search of the ways each of us might try shaking up our own poetic habits. We'll engage with some generative exercises and discuss what it means to get a little braver and weirder in our writing.