Name: Two-Day Intensive: Borrowed Structures—Finding Poetic Form in Unexpected Places
Start: 2026-06-13T13:00:00-0600
End: 2026-06-13T16:00:00-0600

Two-Day Intensive: Borrowed Structures—Finding Poetic Form in Unexpected Places

Saturday June 13, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm MDT

Lighthouse Writers Workshop

What happens when a poem takes its shape from an art installation, divination text, or folk calendar entry? In this class, we'll explore how poets borrow forms—structures adapted from non-poetic sources—to create surprising and generative constraints. Through a range of examples, we’ll explore how to identify promising forms in the world around you and adapt them for poem making.

Speakers

Radha Marcum

Faculty

Radha Marcum, MFA, won the 2023 Washington Prize for her forthcoming collection, Pine Soot Tendon Bone (2024). She was also awarded the New Mexico Book Award in 2018 for her first collection of poems, Bloodline (3: A Taos Press), about her grandfather's work building the first atomic... Read More →

Saturday June 13, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm MDT
Lighthouse Writers Workshop

Poetry

Audience Two-Day Intensive

Lit Fest - Lighthouse Writers Workshop 2026

Radha Marcum

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Lit Fest - Lighthouse Writers Workshop 2026

Radha Marcum

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