Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop

This upper level course is meant to allow students who have experience with a poetry writing workshop environment to further their art. Students will be required to critique poems using vocabulary and critical reading skills developed in ENG235, and to participate in intensive in class writing exercise as a way to garner ideas. The course will focus on further development of individual style and voice and on a closer examination of poetic devices and their use. Students will be expected to view growth in the broader sense, through poem to poem development, revision choices and the influence of outside work by established poets. A final portfolio of revised and polished poems representative of the semesters work will be completed.