This course provides an introduction to the central concepts, craft issues, and techniques of poetry writing, and to the conventions of the creative writing workshop overall. Besides providing the opportunity for students to write in poetry, this course exposes students to a critical vocabulary of the genre, stylistic techniques and forms prevalent within it, as well as extensive and diverse readings within, and at the boundaries of, the genre. Students engage in textual analysis, and will learn to locate readings in a larger literary and literary-historical context. Students will write and workshop a significant amount of new creative work in poetry and develop a sense of process and revision within the genre. No prerequisites.

This course provides an introduction to the central concepts, craft issues, and techniques of poetry writing, and to the conventions of the creative writing workshop overall. Besides providing the opportunity for students to write in poetry, this course exposes students to a critical vocabulary of the genre, stylistic techniques and forms prevalent within it, as well as extensive and diverse readings within, and at the boundaries of, the genre. Students engage in textual analysis, and will learn to locate readings in a larger literary and literary-historical context. Students will write and workshop a significant amount of new creative work in poetry and develop a sense of process and revision within the genre. No prerequisites.