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    • Fast Break
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    • Looking for the I
    • Tricks of Inspiration
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    • Silence and Sound
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  • Level II
    • Active Listening
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  • Foundational Forms

    Grounding in the basics of poetic form, from metered verse to free verse. Students study models of a different formal approach every week and practice and workshop their own poems in the form. Each workshop focuses on a specific formal practice area, such as blank verse or the sonnet; some workshops are sequenced into ten-week blocks meant to allow for sustained work in related practice areas. Workshops in blank verse and the sonnet, for example, can be taken individually or as one extended course exploring meter and rhyme. No prior experience writing or reading poems necessary. Meant for beginning writers and readers of poetry, as well as more experienced poets wishing to shore up aspects of their formal practice.

    Fall 2019

    September 25–October 23
    The Poetry of Complaint
    Julie Hart / Boerum Hill

    September 26–October 24
    The Mythic Mundane: Observational Writing Practice
    Robert Balun / Bushwick

    October 5–November 8
    In Praise Of: The Ode
    Jay Deshpande / online

    October 16–November 19
    Poetry and Memoir: Whose Story Am I Telling?
    JP Howard / online

    October 27—November 24
    Fast Break: Capturing the Motion of the Mind
    Jason Koo / Williamsburg

  • Fast Break

  • Poetry and Memoir

  • In Praise Of

  • The Mythic Mundane

  • The Poetry of Complaint

  • The Modern (Anti-)Love Poem

  • Poetry as Truth Serum

  • Crafting Line Breaks

  • Odd Forms

  • Structure & Play

  • The Sonnet

  • The Praise Poem

  • The Elegy

  • Blank Verse

  • The Poem's Ending

  • The Letter as/in Poetry

  • Repetition & Variation

  • The Narrative Poem

  • Won't You Celebrate with Me?

  • Looking for the I

  • Tricks of Inspiration

  • Dear Readers

  • A Day in the Life

  • Rhyme Redemption

  • Plain American

  • Free Verse Techniques

  • Creating Resonant Images

  • Stretching Tension

  • Turn It Again

  • Charging Language

  • Rhythm & Meter

  • Silence and Sound

  • The Line

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