2026 Conference Schedule

Experimental and traditional forms shape individual poems, but they can also provide key organizing principles in manuscripts. In this panel, writers will discuss how form (sonnet, underpoem, villanelle, contrapuntal, erasure, and more) played a major role in the creation and organization of recent collections. They will also present ways of generating structural elements that can make a book stand out in a crowded field. After moderated conversation, there will be time for audience questions.