Prose for Poets

1 Unit · Graduate

The class examines how prose strategies, resources, and devices can apply to poetry. Students explore the elements and models of prose structure and prose style, including syntax and the sentence; detail and image; diction; the rhetoric of feeling; narration from the first-person point of view and the third. Readings include fiction and nonfiction. This course fulfills the cross-genre requirement for poetry students and may be taken as an elective by fiction and nonfiction students.