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The Poem’s Process
The Poem’s Process Word and world: such are the twin passions of every poet, sometimes at odds, each asking us to risk something, to broaden the horizons of the poem as we write it. This class will explore the composition of new poems through a variety of questions and challenges designed to awaken our sense of expressive range and engagement. Each day students will look for inspiration at innovative lyrics from the post-WWII American tradition, including poems by Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Hecht, Hugo, Merwin, Hass, Glück, Komunyakaa, Schnackenberg, and others. Discussions will broaden to include possibilities for our own poetry, for not only the body of its language, but also where that body takes us. New poems will be shared each day in a productively oriented environment in hopes that the class will send writers forward with a renewed desire to write, to face that sometimes formidable door, the empty page, and open. There will be also be opportunities (particularly in tutorial sessions) to discuss work that students have previously written. Biography
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