HNAR-205: Poetry Workshop

The oldest form of writing is poetry. Its ancient allure as a mode of expression is still strong, sometimes in spite of contemporary distractions from the kind of concentration that reading and writing poetry often requires. This course, which will be run like a workshop, will concentrate on the writing of poetry as a daily practice, where the various daily emotional, intellectual, and sensory experiences can be focused into forms that can allow raw experience to be synthesized into art. We will look into some forms (like haiku and sonnet) and methods (like collage, symbolism, narrative, lyric), and do some reading of poetries that exemplify those forms and methods.