Eduardo C. Corral is the author of Guillotine and Slow Lightning, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition. He’s the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. He teaches in the MFA program at North Carolina State University.
Workshop
Not Good, Not Bad but Interesting: The Poetic Line
The line is the foundational unit for poets. If you can write an interesting line, you can write an interesting poem. But what makes a line interesting? In this workshop, we’ll discuss the tensions that charge the poetic line. We’ll center the poetic line during our conversations and we’ll discuss strategies that will help us write lines that bewilder and delight, lines that slow down time, lines that quicken the reading process. Please come to workshop prepared to share how you shape the poetic line in your own work and please bring five lines you love written by other poets.
