ENG-3220A: The Art of Poetry

This poetry course offers students an opportunity to focus on revision in an in-depth manner. How does the writer decide what stays in a poem and what goes? Can the craft and art of poetry be taught? As Mark Strand said, “All poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.” How can the spontaneity of creativity and limits imposed by craft be reconciled? These questions will be explored both through reading of essays on poetic craft, reading poems by well-known poets along with essays on how they revised their work and by students’ own poetry and revisions.
Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0
Credit Basis: Quarter credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles
Method(s): Classroom
Course Type Liberal & Disciplinary Studies

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ENG-3220A: The Art of Poetry