. Each student will generate a beautiful, seemingly impenetrable question or
choose a koan (paradoxical statement) to explore through.
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Erasure Poems: This Vanishing is Illuminating Pausing our usual vocabularies
in favor of a giddy, intuitive stumbling, we'll make new poems by erasing,
obscuring, and masking old text. Each student will generate a beautiful,
seemingly impenetrable question or choose a koan (paradoxical statement) to
explore through.
Course Type: 2 Day | Instructor: Samar Abulhassan
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Start Date: 4/25/2015 - 1:00 PM
Visual Poetry (and Prose)
Language can live a very different sort of life when it exists with, or in,
a visual-arts realm. A few examples from such leading practitioners as Tom
Phillips, Bianca Stone, and John Ashbery will be presented to jump-start
your imagination.
Course Type: 1 Day | Instructor: Nance Van Winckel
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Start Date: 5/2/2015 - 1:00 PM
Stealing, Sampling, Absconding
We'll spend the first class playing with appropriated texts, investigating
and engaging in the practice of "uncreative writing." Then we'll turn our
attention to homage, imitation, and parody, imbuing our poems with the
talents and twitches of writers such as.
Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Martha Silano
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Start Date: 5/4/2015 - 10:00 AM
Taking a Turn: What Happens When a Poem Shifts?
The sonnet contains a volta: a characteristic turn in its middle where the
poem's argument noticeably shifts. But is it possible every poem, whether
free or formal verse, contains a volta of some kind? What power do these
turns have.
Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Sierra Nelson
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Start Date: 5/5/2015 - 7:00 PM
Poetics of Objects
William Carlos Williams famously coined the phrase "No ideas but in things"
in the 1927 version of his poem "Paterson." At the same time, in France,
Francis Ponge was working hard at working hard, taking this credo to heart
and.
Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Kary Wayson
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Start Date: 5/5/2015 - 7:10 PM
Intro to Poetry: Poems from the Everyday This class serves as an
introduction to poetry writing, combining in-class exercises, take-home
assignments, and discussion of a wide range of poems. We'll look at the
intersection of poetry and the everyday as a means for generating our own
poems;.
Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Bill Carty
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Start Date: 5/6/2015 - 6:00 PM
Poets' Companions: Creating and Critiquing Together
We will read and discuss poems by modern and contemporary writers, critique
each other's poems in process, and use prompts to encourage new writing. We
will write a new poem each week in response to exercises and poems that
inspire. Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Carolyne Wright
Start Date: 5/6/2015 - 5:00 PM
Sentences vs. Poems
Sentences can be thought of as short, short, short stories. In all good
poems, there is a tension between them and a poem's form. Think of the
sentence sounds and speech rhythms of Walt Whitman's and C.K. Williams'
long, loping. Course Type: 6 Week | Instructor: Emily Warne
Master Class: The Hidden Architecture of the Poem All poems have a
structure, even free-verse poems that seem to range around with no apparent
form. Bring three new poems you're struggling to complete - drafts that just
won't seem to fall into place - and we'll bring out.
Course Type: 1 Day | Instructor: Dorianne Laux
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Start Date: 5/9/2015 - 1:00 PM
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Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads: Using Imagery in Poems How can we create
an image to encapsulate an idea, an emotion, a state of mind? We will
explore the power of imagery as a means of crystallizing an idea. We will
seek out and sift through the visual material.
Course Type: 2 Day | Instructor: Jane Wong
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Start Date: 5/16/2015 - 1:00 PM
Doing Little Writing
We will discuss the fact-yes, fact-that about 90% of our prose and poetry
will be better if we can shorten it during the revision process. Leaning on
the experience of examining tens of thousands of essays, short stories, and
poems during.
Course Type: 1 Day | Instructor: Stephen Corey
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Start Date: 6/1/2015 - 10:00 AM
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