Poetry Boot Camp Workshop: Bioethical Poetry Topics Human, Mental Illness and Animal Welfare

3 Units

In this introductory poetry writing workshop and study of bioethical issues in poetry, you will write poems each day and read a wide variety of poems that are organized according to either bioethical themes or demonstrations of types of poem or craft. Participants will undertake in-class study of the following poets: James Wright, John Keats, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, Theodore Roethke, and Langston Hughes, among others. As the week proceeds, we will consider how to read and review poetry with special attention to tone, theme, structure, and response to specific words and lines from poems.