Unlike other areas of the arts, poets tend to be one and done. Photographers take multiple exposures, Van Gogh painted The Starry Night in addition to many other variations of the view outside his room, and there are two stunning takes of Miles Davis/Bill Evans’ “Flamenco Sketches” on Kind of Blue. Poets have an idea, write a poem, then move on. For this workshop, bring a finished poem, one that you are pleased with. We’ll write another poem using the same inspiration but using one of three different forms: the golden shovel, the gigan, and the skinny. Let’s have some fun.
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LE HINTON is the author of seven poetry collections including Sing Silence and Elegies for an Empire (Iris G. Press, 2018 and 2023 respectively). His work has been widely published and can be found in The Best American Poetry 2014, Pleiades, the Baltimore Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, the Skinny Poetry Journal, the Progressive Magazine, the Little Patuxent Review, One Art, the Summerset Review, and outside Clipper Magazine Stadium in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, incorporated into Derek Parker’s sculpture Common Thread. He is the founder and co-editor of the poetry journal Fledgling Rag.