Part of The Poetry Society of New York's Weekly Virtual Workshop Series.With poet Anna Winham!Many poets writing today grew into the genre during a time of what I affectionately call "free verse hegemony." While free verse still dominates many poetry publications and performances, a small but steady rise in the popularity of form poetry is now emerging. Think Jericho Brown's new form, the duplex. Think Terrance Hayes's book of sonnets, American Sonnets for my Past and Future Assassin. Think Diane Seuss's book of nontraditional sonnets, frank: sonnets. Where does this turn in the tide leave those of us who grew up on the line broken whenever and wherever we wanted?For the form-curious or form-loving, form-hating or form-ignorant, this class will introduce and explain what form is, what tools can be employed to create form, and several of the major poetic forms in anglophone poetry. With examples upon examples and an emphasis on play, the class will conclude with a collective exercise writing in form. Form is a set of tools and rules— helpful to have in your back pocket, so that it becomes truly a choice when or whether to use them.About the Instructor: Anna Genevieve Winham writes at the crossroads of science and the sublime, cyborgs and the surreal. Anna serves as the Editor-in-Chief for Passengers Journal and the Development Director for the Poetry Society of New York. She was formerly the Journal Coordinator for Oxford Public Philosophy, and she won Ninth Letter's 2020 literary award in Literary Nonfiction for a "notable" essay in Best American Essays 2021. Anna writes and performs with PSNY, moonlighting as Velvet Envy in The Poetry Brothel. Her prose appears or is forthcoming in We'll Have to Pass, Brooklyn Magazine, The Oxford Review of Books, Grist Journal, Meetinghouse Magazine online, and others. You can find her poetry in New York Quarterly, Wild Roof Journal, High Shelf Press, Cathexis Northwest Press, and others. While attending Dartmouth College (which was the pits), she won the Stanley Prize for experimental essay and the Kaminsky Family Fund Award.* *This workshop will take place on Zoom.**