Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Workshop: Poetry

Today, print out copies of your nature poem for your workshop group. Each member of the workshop group should read and suggest revisions, poetic techniques, and comments about the poem.

Write your comments/suggestions on the poem draft. When you have completed this, please hand these comments in to me first...I'll sort them, give you credit for your work, then pass these on to the poet for revision.

Continue revising and reshaping your poetry.

In the meantime, try a little structure. Choose one of the following closed-form poetry forms and try writing one of the following:

Sonnet

Villanelle
Sestina
Pantoum
Ballad

Then for fun, try a few haiku, clerihew, or limericks. Don't take the limerick and clerihew seriously, please.

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About this course!

This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.