Can You Change the World (in Twelve Poems)?

Harvard FAS

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.Percy Bysshe ShelleyCan a poem change the world? And can you write that poem? And can you write twelve poems? And should you take this class? To write a poem is to be human. To write twelve is to be divine. Can you be divine? Let’s find out, this semester, by writing twelve poems. In this seminar we will write one original poem per week. There are about twelve weeks in a semester. Therefore, we will write twelve poems.In this seminar we…