July 13: Villanelle Exploration with Dustin Brookshire on Zoom

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Date(s) - July 13, 2025
10:00 am - 11:00 am

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Sunday July 13th 10-11AM on Zoom with Dustin Brookshire

Workshop Title: Villanelle Exploration

Workshop description: In this workshop, we’ll have a quick discussion on the existence of a villanelle volta, review a few traditional villanelles, and variations on the form. Then we’ll dive into drafting villanelles with the goal that each participant will leave our hour together with 2-3 drafts.

Bio: Dustin Brookshire (he/him), the 2024 recipient of the Jon Tribble Editors Fellowship, is the author of four chapbooks: Repeat As Needed (Harbor Editions, 2025), Never Picked First For Playtime (Harbor Editions, 2023), Love Most Of You Too (Harbor Editions, 2021), and To The One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2012). He is the co-editor of the Nautilus silver medal recipient anthology Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing, 2023), which was also named to the “Books All Georgians Should Read” list by the Georgia Center for the Book. He is the editor of the anthology When I Was Straight: A Tribute to Maureen Seaton (Harbor Editions, 2024), which received a “get it” verdict from Kirkus Reviews. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Five Points, South Carolina Review, Pleiades, Verse Daily, Best American Poetry Blog, Diode, South Florida Poetry Journal, and other publications. Dustin’s literary citizenship includes curating the Zoom-based Wild & Precious Life Series, Why I Write Series, and Write More Villanelles; he also volunteers as Punch Bucket Lit’s virtual programs director and reads for the Maureen Seaton Poetry Prize as well as the Gylys Villanelle Prize. Find him online at dustinbrookshire.com.