Department of English

In this poetry workshop, students will learn how to use a range of poetic forms—which may include list, lyric, documentary, collage, erasure, epistolary, sound-based, prose, performative, and other shapes and experiments. Students will explore how poetry—both their own and poetry by a number of modern and contemporary practitioners—makes us pay a different kind of attention: to identity, to the social, to the political and historical, to the beautiful, and to the ordinary. Students will write in response to readings and creative prompts, read and discuss work by visiting writers, and workshop each other’s writing throughout the semester before producing a final portfolio of approximately 15 pages of work as well as a statement of poetic practice. New and experienced poets alike are welcome.