The Craft of Poetry: Form and Revision

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This is a course about form in poetry - from the line to the stanza and beyond. Students write and rewrite their poems, experimenting with freer and set forms such as sonnets, villanelles, and haiku, studying and emulating poems by writers like Dove, Bly, Hopkins, Kinnell, Shakespeare, Simic, Yeats, and Whitman. Each class will center on student readings and critiques. Regular conferences.