Time and Poetic Structure: A Workshop with L.A. Johnson

Saturday, July 12
11:00 AM -2:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque

Poems are concerned with time­—the recounting of events and experience—but are also outside of time, existing in a place beyond the limits of linear time. Our lives are made up both by what is happening in the moment, what has happened in the past, and what will happen in the future, but how do we write poems that capture this experience of time? In this three-hour workshop, we will explore how to layer multiple scenes within a poem, and how a poem can capture nonlinear time. This workshop will be a mix of lecture, guided close readings of poems, and generative writing. In considering time, we will focus on poetic structure, considering the many ways the container of the poem can capture at once the past, present, and future. - L.A. Johnson