TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2026

WORKSHOP: 4-5:45 PM | READING 6-6:30 PM

PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED | SPACE IS LIMITED

THE POETIC UNIT:

BUILDING DETAILED, MINIMALIST WORLDS WORKSHOP & READING

Many painters and ceramicists describe working at the scale of the human hand. For a poet, the working unit is a breath. Most poets are familiar with line breaks and stanzas, but how can we look even more closely at how we parse language on the page?

Poet and author LoGAN PHILLIPs discusses how developing a new relationship to "the poetic unit" unlocked a process of generative revision and original writing that became his latest book Reckon (The University of Arizona Press, 2026). Techniques such as caesura, parataxis, volta and genre hybridity are defined and offered as possible tools for use by poets

—all in an accessible and playful atmosphere.