Join Heather-Lang Cassera via Zoom for a multi-week exploration of poetic forms including the awdl gywydd, ghazal, golden shovel, haibun, nonet, pantoum, villanelle, and more. Throughout this generative writing workshop, poets will receive writer-centric feedback from both the instructor and their peers.
Participants will learn how to:
- Overcome writer’s block
- Write in a variety of poetic forms
- Consider poetic form in the context of content
- Craft meter and rhyme for a contemporary audience
- Workshop poetic forms in a world filled with free verse
Poets of all levels may apply via our Submittable page.
Class meeting times:
- September 17, 2023, from 6:30-8:30 PM EST
- September 24, 2023, from 6:30-8:30 PM EST
- October 1, 2023, from 6:30-8:30 PM EST
- October 8, 2023, from 6:30-8:30 PM EST
Investment for the class totaling 8 hours: $397
Please note that space is limited. Poetry applicants should fill out our application and attach a writing sample. We will close applications on September 16, 2023, 11:59 PM EST, or if all seats are filled.
Thank you so much for considering the Black Fox Writing Academy!
About Your Instructor:
Heather Lang-Cassera is a full-time lecturer with Nevada State University, a Tolsun Books publisher, and a 300 Days of Sun Faculty Advisor. She was a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellow and the 2019-2021 Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate. She is the author of Gathering Broken Light (Unsolicited Press, 2021), which was written with the support of a Nevada Arts Council grant and won the NYC Big Book Award in Poetry, Social/Political. Her next collection of poems, a book of ecopoems with the working title of Firefall, has been acquired by Unsolicited Press for publication in 2025.
*Note: We will not be able to offer refunds once registration has been completed. If you have any questions, please reach out to racquel@blackfoxlitmag.com.
