How to End a Poem

How do you end a poem? How should a poem end? This one-day workshop takes up the end of the poem as a, maybe the, key site in a poem's life—the place where a poem becomes itself. We'll examine a range of different poems to think about how poems can end effectively. And we'll discuss some of the pitfalls and problems that many writers encounter as they try to find an effective ending for the poems. This workshop will be both philosophical and practical; we'll think about what the end of the poem is, and how to handle it as working poets.