Introductory Poetry Workshop: A Circle Within a Circle Within a Circle

Harvard FAS

In this workshop-based class, students will explore and put to use the various, crucial components of poem writing, such as image, metaphor, line, form, aboutness, voice, sound, and, above all, emotional and intellectual endlessness and possibility. The balance, interconnectedness, and alliance that these parts achieve are the mark of a poem written with as much intention as instinct. Practicing different formal exercises and with observation of craft, students will write and turn in a poem…