This Writing Workshop is an intensive creative writing clinic for honing the craft of

poetry. It will involve both Critique and Writing. Students are expected to take charge of

this workshop by providing clear feedback to their peers, through the writing process

underscored by three key principles and outcomes of this workshop. The principles of

craft, analysis and rigor. Rigor means the care you put into the craft, and it demands

self-criticism and personal aesthetic accountability. Analysis presupposes an acquisition

of critical insight that will help you in the long run examine carefully and engage in the

meaningful discussion of poetry and poetics, with insight and clarity. You will engage in

a critique of your peers mindful of your awareness of the craft of poetry, with respect

and empathy, as well as with honesty. As a community, we will be accountable to each

other; we will engage in meaningful and respectful discussions, first of the general

principles and constraints of craft using the examples of our class readings, then with

each other's work. In other words, we will read established poets, and using their

examples, craft and revise our own poems through a workshop process. We will

consider how well we arrange language, and structure the topography of the poem with

care and intention. We will workshop our poems, revise, and submit our works, within

the very constraints of allowable time this summer. By the end of this workshop, each

student would have written and revised a set of 5 poems in different forms, around the

subject of Space, the found Object, the Magic of Night and waking, and on Music.

These themes shall form the larger subjects of our detailed and unique responses.

THIS IS A GEP CLASS THAT WILL NOT APPLY TOWARD THE MAJOR OR MINOR AS A LITERARY HISTORY CLASS. IT CAN BE USED AS A DIVERSITY CLASS UNDER FLP.