Beginning Poetry Workshop

9 units · Undergraduate

Fall and Spring: 9 units In this course, we'll explore the manner in which a poem's form and craft can affect the way it tells a story, and the way it makes us feel. We'll examine how a poem's shape can communicate, how its music can stir, and how the space of its page can speak. Students will read work by contemporary poets and consider what their work teaches us as they write their own poems and respond to the work of their peers. Through readings, discussions, and writing exercises, we'll experiment with different methods of employing the line, the line break, white space, rhythm, breath, music, sound and silence to build the sensory world of a poem. Prerequisites: ( 76-101 and 76-365 ) or ( 76-102 and 76-365 ) or ( 76-106 and 76-107 and 76-365 ) or ( 76-108 and 76-106 and 76-365 ) or ( 76-365 and 76-108 and 76-107 )