This workshop begins with the notion that poetic form embodies a powerfully creative paradox that blends freedom with constraint&mdash\;that\, if a poet freely chooses to work within a form\, the demands of that form can goad the poet&rsquo\;s imagination into territories the poet would never have found otherwise. The process of creation thereby involves the poet&rsquo\;s discovery of what had been waiting for articulation all along. You might say that the form may contain a secret&mdash\;what the poet keeps hidden from consciousness&mdash\;and that in this workshop\, we&rsquo\;re trying to uncover that secret.
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\nJames Cushing \;is a poet who holds a doctorate in English from UC Irvine. He has been writing\, publishing\, and trying to teach poetry for fifty years. Associated with Beyond Baroque since the late 1970s\, Cushing hosted a live poetry radio program on KPFK-FM which gave early exposure to Dennis Cooper\, David Trinidad\, Amy Gerstler\, Wanda Coleman\, Leland Hickman\, and many others.