Workshop: Writing the Vertical: Using the Lyric Mode to Create and Revise Poems
While narrative is often the mode that drives a poem, it’s sometimes difficult to quantify how a poet can use the lyric mode as a means of creating a poem. In this generative workshop, we will look at how to pay attention to a poem’s horizontal and vertical movements in order to use the lyric mode as a means of invention as well as a tool for revising. Participants will walk away with a new poem and a method for using the lyric mode in poems.
About W. Todd Kaneko: W. Todd Kaneko is the author of the poetry books This is How the Bone Sings (Black Lawrence Press 2020) and The Dead Wrestler Elegies (New Michigan Press 2020). He is co-author with Amorak Huey of Poetry: A Writers’ Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury Academic 2018), and Slash / Slash, winner of the 2020 Diode Editions Chapbook Prize, which will be published in 2021. A Kundiman Fellow, he teaches at Grand Valley State University and lives with his family in Grand Rapids, Michigan.