FORMS OF POETRY

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

This course examines the fundamental architecture of poetry. How do poets create a sense of shape? What are the nuts and bolts of a poem? Students will read widely in the history of poetry from traditional meters and historical forms to contemporary free verse and experimental or open forms. Part workshop and part seminar, this course will feature critical and creative assignments and is designed for majors and non-majors, writers and non-writers alike. Course counts toward the English Creative Writing Major Concentration (ECRW) and the English Creative Writing Minor (CREW).