Notes: Course Repeatable for Credit. The Shape of You: Place and Poetic Form. In this workshop, we delve into our own places—those we love, those we might be uncomfortable in, even those we are excluded from—to discover their suitable poetic shapes. Is your backyard a sonnet, neatly hem med in on all sides? What about the inside of your childhood home? Do the lines hold together, or do things fall apart? What sounds or events occur over and over in your apartment building, or on the street, which demand the repetition of a villanelle? Or: do certain environments defy meter and rhyme, requiring the (relative) freedom of a prose poem—or even some newly invented poetic shape? What’s your poetic form? In this class, we’ll study the ways various poems paint emotional and sensory landscapes. You will leave with a working knowledge of poetic forms, and a portfolio of your work.