New Class

Here's an synopsis of the class I am taking right now, written by my friend Tom Daley himself. I will post a sample from the work we did in the first class this past Monday. There's still room for four more people. I would like to think that if you wrote a Shakespearian Sonnet between now and next Monday and sent him an email, he could either fit you in or prepare for another class.

An example of both his formal and informal work appears here.

WRITING IN POETIC FORMSTO UNLEASE THE POETIC IMAGINATION

A six week workshop led by Tom DaleyMonday nights, 7:30-9:30 pmJanuary 3–February 7, 2005Poets, both beginning and practiced, are invited to an engagementwith six poetic forms to help unchain your creative impulse. We willbe studying and learning to write in six forms: ballads, blank verse(iambic pentameter), terza rima, sonnets, sestinas and villanelles.

The workshop will be held at the instructor's home in Cambridge. The fee is $100, payable at the first class. Limited to eightparticipants. To reserve a spot or for more information, tom.daley2@verizon.net

"By attending to form we occupy the surfaces of our minds, so thatforbidden contents edge in to the poem." —W. D. Snodgrass (Quoted byDonald Hall in Taking Note: From Poets Notebooks)

"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of thechains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraintonly serves to obtain precision of execution." —Igor Stravinsky

Tom Daley has had poetry published in Prairie Schooner, Archipelago,Salamander, can we have our ball back?, Perihelion and Yemassee. Heleads poetry writing workshops at the Boston Center for AdultEducation and at his home in Cambridge. He studied creative writingat the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he receivedthe Charles and Fanny Fay Wood Academy of American Poets Prize.