GCREA 5409 The Contemporary Poetic Voice
In this course, we will read and write poetry. We will immerse ourselves in the work of several contemporary poets to study a range of voices and to learn a variety of techniques. We will explore the symbolic, the imaginative, the interrogative, the declamatory, and other rhetorical devices in our reading. Careful attention to the way a poem is put together--lineation, syntactical structures, punctuation, address, metaphor, imagery--makes us both better readers and better writers of poetry. The first part of the class will be spent discussing the published texts, and the second part will be devoted to workshopping students' original poems.