ENGL 391 - Craft Seminar in Poetry

Upper Division

This course focuses on issues that influence the writing of poetry. Some seminars may focus on issues of craft or aesthetics-figuration, the line, the sentence, or open field theory-and others will be thematic in nature-politics and poetics, psychoanalysis and surrealism, ecopoetics, etc. Readings may include a wide range of poetry from diverse sources and historical periods as well as the students’ own works-in-progress.

Course credits: 3