Writing Workshop with Brooke Sahni In-Person
What Is a Poem?
Is it long? Is it short? Does it begin on the left margin of the page? Does it rhyme? Does it have complicated language that sounds cool but doesn’t make any sense? In this workshop we will discuss the question, what is a poem? We will begin by defining what we think a poem is, what it looks like, what it sounds like, before looking at examples from poets such as Danez Smith, Leila Chatti, Olivia Gatwood and others. We will also discuss one of the tenets of poetry—metaphor—before diving into our own generative exercises.
- Date:
- Thursday, January 25, 2024
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Mountain Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Smith Brasher Hall, Room 103
- Campus Library:
- Montoya
- Audience:
- Faculty Staff Students
- Categories:
- Community Event
Brooke Sahni is the author of Before I Had the Word (Texas Review Press, 2021), which won the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Arizona and New Mexico Book Awards. She is also the author of Divining (Orison Books, 2020), which won the Orison Chapbook Prize. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in journals such as Alaska Quarterly Review, Denver Quarterly, 32 Poems, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Indiana Review, Cimarron Review and elsewhere. She lives in the high desert mountains of Arizona where she writes and teaches.
Special thanks to the Executive Council of Students (ECOS) and the CNM Co-Curricular Learning Initiative for their support and sponsorship.
