INSTRUCTOR: MIKE YOUNG
SKU:
$295.00
$295.00
A menagerie of online journals named after funny animals. A trail of PBR and cheese from one reading series to another. New poetry bookstores and community libraries moving into old firehouses and the storefronts of architecture firms. Stacks of books, sacks of line breaks. Slams and cowboys and MFAs and Tumblrs in the woods. Today's poetry landscape is splintered, chaotic, saturated…and healthier than ever.
But what is "contemporary poetry"? How does the craft of writing poems interact with participation in community? What does it mean to be a poet with an ear in the wind and an eye to the past?
In this ten-week course, we will answer those questions with curiosity, verve, and creative energy. Together we will explore the reading, writing, and proliferation of contemporary poetry with the goal of figuring out what it means to write poems today and what it means to be a poet today, and how those two different pursuits might give each other surprising handshakes.
Students will come out of the course with new poems of their own, new techniques, and organic reading lists. We will confer live online once a week as a group, for an hour, for sparked discussions and performances. Each student will also have the opportunity to meet with the instructor individually, once a week, to discuss his or her work and receive supportive and generous commentary. In addition, the course will include a Moodle-based repository of ongoing discussions, exercises, and resources. (Instructor will provide registered students details and support in using Moodle.) Expect a time commitment of at least three hours a week.
DATES: June 23rd-August 31st. Meetings times determined by registered writers.
LEVEL: Everyone
CAP: 6
PRICE:
But what is "contemporary poetry"? How does the craft of writing poems interact with participation in community? What does it mean to be a poet with an ear in the wind and an eye to the past?
In this ten-week course, we will answer those questions with curiosity, verve, and creative energy. Together we will explore the reading, writing, and proliferation of contemporary poetry with the goal of figuring out what it means to write poems today and what it means to be a poet today, and how those two different pursuits might give each other surprising handshakes.
Students will come out of the course with new poems of their own, new techniques, and organic reading lists. We will confer live online once a week as a group, for an hour, for sparked discussions and performances. Each student will also have the opportunity to meet with the instructor individually, once a week, to discuss his or her work and receive supportive and generous commentary. In addition, the course will include a Moodle-based repository of ongoing discussions, exercises, and resources. (Instructor will provide registered students details and support in using Moodle.) Expect a time commitment of at least three hours a week.
DATES: June 23rd-August 31st. Meetings times determined by registered writers.
LEVEL: Everyone
CAP: 6
PRICE:
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