This online workshop will stress both the bones of the poem – syllables, lines, meter, various stanza forms – and its flesh – the themes that have always inspired poets.
Accordingly, weekly assignments will focus both on structure and on what that structure supports and encloses. Each week, in addition to workshopping student poems, we’ll be reading a few poems that exemplify expert and inventive use of structure and theme, by poets including but not limited to A.E. Stallings, Thom Gunn, Robert Pinsky, and Carl Phillips.
Class with be held online on Tuesdays October 15, 22, 29, and November 5.
Enrollment is limited to 12 students.
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Rachel Hadas is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays and translations, including Questions in the Vestibule, The River of Forgetfulness and Halfway Down the Hall: New & Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize given by the Academy of American Poets. Among her honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation grant, and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
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