Enhance your knowledge of structure, imagery, metaphor, and pace
Produce and refine work that challenges you to go further
About this course:
For those with some previous training in poetry, this intermediate workshop focuses on creating work which emphasizes lyrical and innovative language, personal insight and individual voice. In addition, you refine your knowledge of a number of the craft's formal elements, including structure, imagery, metaphor and pace, in order to stretch the boundaries of your creative experience. The goal is to produce work which is ambitious and resonant.
Prerequisites
WRITING X 431.1 Poetry I or comparable workshop experience.
Enrollment limited to 15 students; early enrollment advised. Visitors not permitted. Internet access required.
This course is held via video teleconference. Instructors use Zoom to offer live class meetings at the designated class meeting time. Students must be present at the course meeting time as each student’s final grade may include scores for participation. Please inform your instructor if you will miss a class meeting. You are responsible for any class information you missed. We suggest you arrange with a fellow classmate to share their notes when feasible.
Refund Deadline
No refunds after January 23, 2025
Course Requirements
Internet access required to retrieve course materials.
Blood Dazzler
by Patricia Smith
Coffee House Press
ISBN 978-1566892186
Time Is A Mother
by Ocean Vuong
Penguin Books
ISBN 978-0593300251
Bread & Circus
by Aires D. Matthews
Scribner
ISBN 978-1668011454
Schedule
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Date
Time
Location
Online
Thu Jan 9, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Thu Jan 16, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Thu Jan 23, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Thu Jan 30, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Thu Feb 6, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Thu Feb 13, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Thu Feb 27, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Thu Mar 6, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Thu Mar 13, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
Online
Thu Mar 20, 2025
6:00PM PT - 9:00PM PT
Remote Classroom
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