Course Description
Students acquire poetic craft to write poetry which crosses disciplinary, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. This “bootcamp” seminar guides students on “poetic fieldtrips” to stimulate collisions between disparate disciplinary vocabularies and knowledges. Daily research and reading help craft poems that draw upon what has been experienced, witnessed, studied, and learned.
Athena Title
Writing Cultures
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LLED 8710E
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Students will: 1. identify, read, and write contemporary, cross-cultural poetry 2. acquire and use critical language for talking about poems we read, write, and revise 3. identify what metaphors poetry provides for the interdisciplinary student and educator's life 4. establish a poetic community, attending and producing public poetry readings
Topical Outline
1. Introduction to Course; Introduction to Each Other a. Poetry Influences b. Autobiographical Poems 2. Issues to Consider: Craft and the Tools of the Poet a. Image b. Line c. Figuration d. Sound e. Voice f. Rhetoric and Abstraction 3. Closed and Open Forms: How Sound and Form Enhance Meaning 4. Craft Essays: Voice and the Difficult View 5. Poetry and the Poetic Student-Educator Across Academic Disciplines 6. Poetry and the Art of the Spoken Word: Performing the Public Poem