Class Description
This course is an opportunity to jumpstart your poetry, discover a new community of writers, expand your portfolio, and polish a manuscript. While reading both established and experimental contemporary poets, students will respond to a variety of prompts and in-class writing activities to bolster their poetic imagination and explore their linguistic reflexes.
Each class session will be spent on a short discussion of a celebrated poet followed by an intense workshop of student work. Every week, students will be expected to be writing, and will have the opportunity to workshop their work and receive written feedback from the instructor. This is an important course for a serious reader and writer of poetry, one that will give you a deeper command, pleasure, and knowledge of poetry/poetics. This poetry workshop is for both emerging and established writers.
Poets we read may include: Kay Ryan, Robert Frost, Karl Kirchwey, Derek Walcott, Kazim Ali, Basil Bunting, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Mario Chard, Li-young Lee, Shane McCrae, Robert Pinsky, James Longenbach, Louise Gluck, Claudia Rankine, Adam Kirsch, Robert Hass, Anne Carson, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, Charles Wright, Ellen Bryan Voigt, Susan Mitchell, Du Fu, Carl Phillips, W. H. Auden and Arthur Sze.
Topics will include Sound, Mystery, Voice, Shape, and two on Syntax: Long and Short.
Scholarship Information
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
Thanks to the excellent literary citizenship of our donors, scholarships are available for all GrubStreet classes. To apply, click the gray "APPLY FOR SCHOLARSHIP" button. In order to be considered for a scholarship, you must complete your application at least one week before the start date of a class. Please await our scholarship committee's decision before registering for the class. We cannot hold spots in classes, so the sooner you apply, the better. Scholarships cannot be applied retroactively.
For more detailed information about GrubStreet scholarships, including how to contribute to scholarship funds for other students, click here.
This class will take place using Zoom videoconferencing. After registering, a yellow Resources tab will appear in this section containing a link to join class. Please note that you will need to be logged into view the Resources tab.
Zoom Participation:
In our experience, the intimate nature of a writing workshop benefits from on-camera participation. Students are of course welcome to turn their camera off whenever they need to, but it is a community norm for cameras to be on most of the time. You can learn more about using Zoom here.
Zoom Accessibility:
You can enable closed captioning at any time during the meeting by clicking the CC button at the bottom of the screen. If you'd like to access the transcript after class, please make sure to let your instructor ahead of time that you'd like a copy.