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City Lights: Sign Up for a Sonnet Crash Course

Maybe extra time to sit at home and ponder has you feeling reflective, fathoms deep—newly aware of how, like Walt Whitman, you contain multitudes. These introspective, brooding times are all but tailor-made for a classic creative outlet: poetry. If you’re unsure about whether to begin with an aubade or an ode, a workshop could be just the thing to help your creative musings take form. Enter the Writer’s Center, a stalwart of the D.C. area literary scene since 1976. […]