Taught by Natasha Sajé
Friday, January 15, 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Registration fee: $60.00
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Identifying modes of poems is an underused method of diagnosing why they satisfy the reader (or don’t). In this workshop, we’ll define the four basic modes of poems (lyric, narrative, argument, description) and read examples of each. Then we’ll turn to participants’ poems, asking whether the poem’s current structure is its best structure. To do that, we might imagine a narrative poem as a lyric or vice versa. Bring copies of two poems of yours that you’re unhappy with.

Natasha Sajé is a professor of English at Westminster College in Salt Lake City where she also curates the Anne Newman Sutton Weeks Poetry Series. In addition, Sajé is a member of the poetry faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. in Writing Program. She is the author of three books of poems, a book of poetry criticism, and many essays. Her work has been honored with the Robert Winner and Alice Fay di Castagnola Awards, a Fulbright fellowship, the Campbell Corner Poetry Prize, and the Utah Book Award.