Katie Ford: “Ghost Forms: Using Traditional Form in Free Verse

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In this podcast, poet Katie Ford examines the usefulness of employing the “ghosts” of classical forms in crafting contemporary poetry. Ford advises writers to look to the sonnet and listen for the “inherent music” of popular and tested literary techniques. Ford also demonstrates how a poet may apply similar tools while “reinvigorating the form” with the modern language and images of one’s “rhetorical intuition.”

Listen: Katie Ford: "Ghost Forms: Using Traditional Form in Free Verse"

Katie Ford (M.Div., Harvard University; M.F.A., The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop) is the author of Deposition, (Graywolf Press) and a chapbook, Storm (Marick Press, 2007). Her poems have been published in the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, the Partisan Review, the Seneca Review, Poets & Writers and on-line on Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. Katie is Poetry Editor of the New Orleans Review and currently teaches at Reed College.

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August 20, 2007
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