Official Description:
This course provides students the opportunity to practice writing poetry. Through attention to the elements of craft in these creative forms and a range of prompts, students learn to develop free and formal verse that explores new possibilities for expression. Poetry assignments will follow prompts to create, for instance, poems drawn from their own lives, litanies, and pantoums. Attention to word choice, imagery, metaphor, and writing strong lines will be practiced across the genre. Students work toward creating and revising an original body of writings that, together, reveal an emergent creative voice. This course is a program elective for the English major and minor, the Writing minor, and the Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities major.
Student Description:
This course allows me to read, write, and review poetry from my own creative views, along with learning how to peer review poetry and analyze a range of poetic styles. I practiced creating imagery, using connotations, and forms of rhyming to develop and improve my written pieces across the semester.
