Guided by poems from Kaveh Akbar, Wendy Videlock, A. E. Stallings, Joy Harjo, and more, this class examines the ways that the repetition of a single word can have a cumulative and explosive effect on a poem.
Erica Reid is the author of Ghost Man on Second, winner of the Donald Justice Poetry Prize (Autumn House Press, 2024). Erica’s poems appear in Rattle, Cherry Tree, Colorado Review, and more. Erica is a 2025 Fellow at the Vermont Center for the Creative Arts and teaches in Western Colorado University’s MFA program.
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