POET 21 — Poetry Writing: Sparking Creativity, Generating New Work
Summer
Mondays
6:30—9:30 pm
Date(s)
Jun 22—Jul 27
6 weeks
Drop By
Jul 5
2 Units
Fees
$455
Limit
21
Open
Sometimes creativity just needs a little spark to make it catch fire. Through a multitude of fun and unexpected writing exercises, this course is intended to start conflagrations, and to challenge students to fundamentally reimagine what their poems can be. This course, suitable for beginning and experienced poets alike,
is designed to help students produce new work and experiment with different ways of writing poems. The course will be structured around a series of writing exercises and assignments, from formal approaches to poetry like the sonnet, the pantoum, and number-based poems, to rhetorical forms like prayer—each designed to teach students a particular principle of poetry writing. Students will share the best of their results in a supportive workshop setting, and will have the option to meet with the instructor in a one-on-one conference. Reading for the course will include a wide range of contemporary poetry by Maurice Manning, A. E. Stallings, and Kim Addonizio, among others. We will also discuss the poetry world and publication, and will finish the course with a celebratory poetry reading in the last class.
Peter Kline, William Chace Lecturer in Continuing Studies; Former Stegner Fellow, Stanford
Peter Kline has received a fellowship from the James Merrill House and an Amy Clampitt Residency Award, as well as the Southwest Review’s Morton Marr Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Poetry, Best New Poets, and many other journals and anthologies. He has taught creative writing at Stanford, the University of San Francisco, the University of Virginia, and James Madison University. His first collection of poems, Deviants, was published in 2013. Kline received an MFA from the University of Virginia.Textbooks for this course:
(Required) Maurice Manning, Bucolics (ISBN 9780156034753)
(Required) A. E. Stallings, Olives: Poems (ISBN 0810152266)
(Required) Kim Addonizio, Tell Me (American Poets Continuum) (ISBN 1880238918)
(Required) A. E. Stallings, Olives: Poems (ISBN 0810152266)
(Required) Kim Addonizio, Tell Me (American Poets Continuum) (ISBN 1880238918)