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An update from our fifty-first Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, November 26 Somewhat of a theme for this fall session, this week we focused on another example of form poetry: the ghazal. In a ghazal, we learned, the poem is written in an unlimited amount of couplets; each couplet is grammatically complete—there is no enjambment; each couplet ends on the same word or phrase; and, in the penultimate or ultimate couplet there will be a proper name, and often the poet refers to themselves. We read five ghazals: “Derecho Ghazal” by Luisa A. Igloria “That’s My Heart Right There” by Willie Perdomo “Rain” by Kazim Ali “It Is with Words as It Is with People” by Anthony Madrid “Wight” by Stanley Plumly The Challenge: Write your own ghazal. The Participants: Benedetta, Alice, Allie, Emma, Anushka, Aditi, Arjun, Ella, Madeline, Russell, Savi, Tate, Penelope