This class is focused on reading, understanding, and finally trying to write our own sonnets. In particular, we'll have an overview of how the form has come into, and changed within, the English language, and how we now treat the sonnet in the 21st century. We'll do some reading of sonnets, practice techniques, and work toward putting these techniques together in original compositions.
• In-Class Writing Lift: Medium
• Homework: None
• Workshopping Drafts: Optional
Christian Detisch is a writer whose poems, essays, and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in The Rumpus, 32 Poems, Image, Blackbird and elsewhere. He received his MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University and his M.Div from the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale Divinity School. He works as a chaplain in Asheville, North Carolina.
Christian is new to The Porch. Welcome!
