Poetry Forms Presentation

For this assignment, you will present a poetry form to the class. You may work in pairs. Here are the guidelines:

1. Research your poetry form
2. Find a creative way to teach the class to write in that form.
3. Your presentation should be short, but informative.
4. Include the following:

• A brief history
• Information about the form
• Contemporary context. How has the form changed over time?
• An example of the form. Please choose at least one example from The Norton Anthology of Poetry.
• Your own poem in the form provided.
• Handouts are welcome, but not mandatory. If you have a complex form like the sestina, it may be useful to provided an organizer to the class (see me for assistance on this.)

These are the forms we will look at!

ode (done in class)
elegy (Zoe/Tyshay)
villanelle (Grace/Jacob/Mitchell)
sestina (Jaymee/Aleah)

pantoum (Mathilda/Austin)
sonnet (Karlamarie/Izzi)
haiku (Grace/Jacob/Mitchell)
senryu (Grace/Jacob/Mitchell)