What can a poem do that other forms of writing and thinking can’t? This creative writing workshop is designed both to stretch your idea of what a poem is and what it does: how language can be built, syncopated, erased, stitched together, reworked, and performed. We’ll workshop our poems together, read and listen to books of poems weekly, and most of all, provide good company to each other.

This course satisfies the following CURRENT English major/minor requirement: American Literature, Poetry

This course satisfies the following NEW English major/minor requirements: Time: Contemporary/Modern

***IMPORTANT*** This course is currently open to English Creative Writing Minors and English Creative Writing Capstone students. This course will open to all students who have completed or are currently enrolled in English 323 or 324 on Tuesday, April 11th. If you have taken this enforced prerequisite, you will be able to freely enroll in this course on Tuesday, April 11th. This course is closed to students who are not English Creative Writing Minors / in the English Creative Writing Capstone program until Tuesday, April 11th. You will not be able to enroll prior to this date.

Course Requirements:

This course requires you to write a poem weekly and to comment on the work of your classmates. In addition, students will be given prompts or other writing assignments (roughly biweekly). A portfolio of poems is due at the end of class. There is no mid-term and no final exam.

Intended Audience:

This course is primarily intended for students who have already taken English 324, the intermediate poetry workshop. This course is not intended as an introduction to creative writing nor is it designed to be a student’s first poetry workshop.