Let’s Repeat Ourselves is a generative poetry experience focusing on three forms that employ repeating lines: villanelle, pantoum, and triolet. All three forms use repeating lines in different ways. All three are fairly short. All three are fun to write.
We will spend time learning the forms and practice writing poems of each kind. Handouts will be provided and a door prize awarded on the final week. No experience with these forms is needed. We will all learn as we write them! Class Limit: 12
Instructor Carol Willette Bachofner is a poet, photographer, and watercolorist. She served as Poet Laureate of Rockland, Maine from 2012–2016. She is the author of seven books of poetry. Carol’s latest book Every Place I Look, Women With Embers at Their Feet (Main Street Rag Publishing) will be published in late fall of 2025.
Bachofner’s poetry has appeared in numerous journals, such as Cafe Review, Prairie Schooner, The Connecticut Review, The Comstock Review, Cream City Review, as well as in the following anthologies, Dawnland Voices, An Anthology of Writings from Indigenous New England (University of Nebraska Press, 2013); Enough! (Littoral Books 2020); and Wait (Littoral Books2021).
Carol says: Poetry is a living thing, always evolving but never losing sight of its parentage, its legacy. To learn more, visit https://carolbach.substack.com.