ENG 434SEM—Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry

This intensive poetry workshop asks students to submit original work for review and revision, and to offer critical response to their peers. Throughout the semester, we will experiment with new modes of writing poetry and promote a dialogue between acts of creation and acts of critical attention by responding to each other’s work and through studying a wide range of poetry and poetics in a transhistorical frame. We will be listening for ways to extend the possibilities of the poem; we will pay close attention to issues of process, craft, and vision. The course is geared to help students produce mature work with an aim toward future publication.