Anahid Nersessian on the History of the Sonnet

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the History of the Sonnet</h1> </div> <div id="block-stanza-content"> <article role="article" about="/academy-american-poets/seminars/anahid-nersessian-history-sonnet" class="seminar"> <div class="field field--field_image"> <div class="field__content"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/seminar_image/public/2024-11/Petrarch_0.png?itok=iaf1YJ-a" width="700" height="431" alt="Portrait by Altichiero da Verona of Francesco Petrarch" typeof="foaf:Image" /> </div> </div> <div class="field field--body"><p><em><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>“part prison,</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Part panic closet, a little room in a house set aflame.”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></em></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>—from Terrance Hayes’s “American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin”</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>The sonnet, or “little song,” is one of our most familiar poetic forms. Short and compact, sonnets are deceptively simple poems that track the twists and turns of the human mind as it contemplates one thought and then another, or as it is seized by conflicting emotions that struggle to resolve into a coherent feeling, perspective, or desire.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>This seminar will track the history of the sonnet from its origins in the Arabic </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><em><span>muwashshah</span></em></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>, a genre of poetry that emerged in Muslim Spain in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, to its popularization by the Italian poet Petrarch and its flourishing during the Renaissance, all the way to twentieth- and twenty-first century experiments with the form by poets like Ted Berrigan, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bernadette Mayer, Wendy Trevino, and many others.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Class meets from 2:30–3:45 p.m. on Wednesdays: Jan 15, 22, and 29.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><em><span>This live, virtual course is structured to encourage active participation. Registrants will receive Zoom links a week before each session, a day prior to each session, and the morning of each session. All recordings will be made available within forty-eight hours of a session. All recordings and class materials will remain available for thirty days after the final session.</span></em></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><em><span>Scholarship applications must be submitted by Friday, January 10, at 10 a.m.</span></em></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p><span><span><span><span><span><em><span>For information on how to register, how to receive the member discount, how to apply for a scholarship, how to access recordings and course materials, and more, please visit our </span></em></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://poets.org/literary-seminars-faq"><span><span><span><span><span><em><span>FAQ page</span></em></span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span><span><span><span><em><span>.</span></em></span></span></span></span></span></p> </div> <div class="seminar-pricing"> <div class="field field--seminar_price"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Price</div> <div content="150.00" class="field__content">$150.00</div> </div> <div class="cta"><a href="/user/login?destination=/academy-american-poets/seminars/anahid-nersessian-history-sonnet">Log in</a> or <a href="/user/register?destination=/academy-american-poets/seminars/anahid-nersessian-history-sonnet">Register</a> to sign up!</div> </div> <div class="field field--seminar_sessions"> <div class="field__label">Sessions in this seminar</div> <div class="seminar-sessions__container"> <div class="field__content seminar-sessions__session"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--seminar-session paragraph--view-mode--default"> <img src="/themes/custom/stanza/assets/images/seminar-session-coming-soon.svg" alt/> <div class="seminar-sessions__session-details"> <div class="field field--title"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Session title</div> <div class="field__content">On the History of the Sonnet: Session 1</div> </div> <div class="field field--session_time">Jan 15th, 2025 2:30pm – 3:45pm EST</div> <div class="field field--seminar-media"> <span class="seminar-session--locked" tabindex="0" data-tooltip="true" data-placement="bottom" title="Registered attendees get access to live session links and recordings."> Restricted Access </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field__content seminar-sessions__session"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--seminar-session paragraph--view-mode--default"> <img src="/themes/custom/stanza/assets/images/seminar-session-coming-soon.svg" alt/> <div class="seminar-sessions__session-details"> <div class="field field--title"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Session title</div> <div class="field__content">On the History of the Sonnet: Session 2</div> </div> <div class="field field--session_time">Jan 22nd, 0005 2:30pm LMT – Jan 22nd, 2025 3:45pm EST</div> <div class="field field--seminar-media"> <span class="seminar-session--locked" tabindex="0" data-tooltip="true" data-placement="bottom" title="Registered attendees get access to live session links and recordings."> Restricted Access </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field__content seminar-sessions__session"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--seminar-session paragraph--view-mode--default"> <img src="/themes/custom/stanza/assets/images/seminar-session-coming-soon.svg" alt/> <div class="seminar-sessions__session-details"> <div class="field field--title"> <div class="field__label visually-hidden">Session title</div> <div class="field__content">On the History of the Sonnet: Session 3</div> </div> <div class="field field--session_time">Jan 29th, 2025 2:30pm – 3:45pm EST</div> <div class="field field--seminar-media"> <span class="seminar-session--locked" tabindex="0" data-tooltip="true" data-placement="bottom" title="Registered attendees get access to live session links and recordings."> Restricted Access </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--field_person_bio"> <div class="field__label">Faculty</div> <div class="field__content"> <article role="article" about="/contributor/anahid-nersessian"> <div class="field field--field_image"> <figure class="field__content"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/square_700_x_700_/public/images/biographies/Anahid-Nersessian-portrait.jpg?itok=y6ql46fv" width="700" height="700" alt="Anahid Nersessian" title="Courtesy of Anahid Nersessian" typeof="foaf:Image" /> <figcaption class="poet__sidebar-img-caption"> Courtesy of Anahid Nersessian </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div> <h3> <span class="field field--title">Anahid Nersessian</span> </h3> <div> <div class="field field--body"><p>Anahid Nersessian was born and raised in New York City. She is the author of <em>Keats’s Odes: A Lover’s Discourse</em> (University of Chicago Press, 2021; Verso, 2022); <em>The Calamity Form: On Poetry and Social Life</em> (University of Chicago, 2020); and <em>Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment</em> (Harvard University Press, 2015). She is currently writing a book called “How to Have Sex in a Poem.” The former poetry editor of <em>Granta</em>, she is also a frequent contributor to <em>The New York Review of Books</em>.</p></div> </div> <a href="/contributor/anahid-nersessian">Learn more about <span class="field field--title">Anahid Nersessian</span> </a> </div> </article> </div> </div> <div class="field--seminar_resources"> <div class="field__label">Seminar Resources</div> <p> Registered attendees get access to live session links, recordings of past sessions, and all seminar materials. </p> </div> </article> </div> </div> </div> </div> </main> <div class="region region-pre-footer newsletter-support-follow"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="newsletter-form col-md-4"> <div class="region region-pre-footer newsletter-support-follow newsletter"> <h3 class="signup-title">Newsletter Sign Up</h3> <div class="newsletter__form newsletter__content"> <div id="mc_embed_signup"> <form 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