INTRO POETRY: This course will examine the ways in which poets engage, describe, and represent the multi-faceted self. Students will read and study both canonical and contemporary works in order to see how poetry engages the external world in order to better understand the inner one. We will study poetic techniques for allowing our written selves to be as complex, flexible, and three-dimensional as we are. Weekly poetry assignments and prompts will compliment close-reading and craft discussions, with a workshop component. May not be enrolled as the following classifications: Fifth Year or Senior. No pre-requisites.

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.