Reading: "Re-Turning: Movement and Repetition in Verse"

In poetry, forms like the villanelle, pantoum, sestina, and rondeau circle back while moving forward. Their odd and insistent amplifications suggest an ambulance stuck in traffic: something at once frozen and emergent. Students from Associate Professor of English Ralph Savarese’s poetry writing seminar will read poems that find their life in repetition, returning, and re-turning.