24Pearlstreet Workshops

Traci Brimhall Hybrids and Hermit Crabs: Lyric Forms in Creative Nonfiction Non-Fiction July 29 to August 23, 2019 Tuition: $500 Class Size: 15 Session: summer Level:

In this class we will examine essays that take their forms from other sources in order to write our own. We will look at pieces that borrow form from documents like quizzes, medical charts, and rejection letters, and try and find inspiration in our own everyday documents. We will also look at the braided essay, and nonfiction that uses poetic forms like sonnets, sestinas, and ghazals to find their structures before trying our own. Let your writing cross lines and bend genre and move into a new form!

Biography

Traci Brimhall is the author of Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon), Saudade (Copper Canyon), Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton), and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Slate, Poetry, The Believer, The New Republic, and Best American Poetry. A 2013 NEA Fellow, she’s currently an Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Kansas State University.