Stuck in a rut with your writing? Try writing a list poem. They are easy to write, and can be a surprisingly effective way to express certain ideas or emotions. A list poem can be amusing, or it can use the incantatory power of repetition to reinforce a depth of feeling. In this workshop we will look at some samples of list poems, talk about possible topics, and try writing a draft of our own.

Ginny Lowe Connors, a retired English teacher, is the author of several poetry collections, including Toward the Hanging Tree: Poems of Salem Village (Antrim House, 2017), as well as The Unparalleled Beauty of a Crooked Line and Barbarians in the Kitchen. Her chapbook, Under the Porch, won the Sunken Garden Poetry Prize and she has earned numerous awards for individual poems. Connors holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is a former poet laureate of West Hartford. As publisher of her own press, Grayson Books, Connors has also edited a number of poetry anthologies, including Forgotten Women: A Tribute in Poetry. A Board Member of the Connecticut Poetry Society, she is co-editor of Connecticut River Review. Connors writes a column for the Hartford Courant: CT Poets’ Corner.