ENW 5057 Contemporary Reading and Writing of Poetry
Although we will explore some traditional poetic forms, the emphasis in this class will be an in-depth look into the more open contemporary forms that published poets are writing today and apply those techniques to our own poems. We will study poets from the mid 1950s to the present and discover how their techniques can be applied to our own writing. In short, our poems will not fit a form or metrical grid, but will find forms to fit our poems. The effect is for each individual poet in class to incorporate rhythms that are personal and not artificial and strive to have their poems capture the realism and spontaneity of everyday speech.