Virtual Poetic Form workshop

This virtual workshop (on zoom) facilitated by The Paper Poet will be a deep dive into understanding and practicing the contemporary poetic form of "The Duplex" as invented by Poet Jericho Brown. The Paper Poet accepts barter or Venmo to @Bianca-Zanella on sliding scale, register to confirm payment.

from: https://64parishes.org/entry/jericho-brown --

"In his Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Tradition, Brown created a new poetic form called the “duplex.”  The duplex is a contemporary poetic form that consists of seven couplets with nine to eleven syllables per line; the second line of the preceding stanza echoes the first line of the following stanza, and the last line echoes the first. It is intended to be a mix of the sonnet, ghazal, and blues forms. When asked what inspired the creation of the duplex, Brown told Bennington Review editor Michael Dumanis: 'If I can take a sonnet and I can take a ghazal and…