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Instructor: K Hank Jost
Dates: TBD
Capacity: 15
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
—Wallace Stevens
Rather than directly likening icicles and glass (“Icicles, like barbaric glass / filled the long window”) Stevens chooses to delay the deployment of his metaphor until the moment of the line break.
So, how does lineation modulate pacing? How does it open the channels to unspoken meanings and polyvalences? What can excellent poets’ approaches to the line teach us about timing, craft, and meaning in poetry?
In this 6-week generative workshop course, we’ll read various 20th and 21st century poets in pursuit of a focus on the line.
Students will have the opportunity to share their work every week, and to be closely, attentively read by their peers. We will offer suggestions to each other and imagine bold directions for revision. By the end of this course, students will turn in a flight of revised poems, about 7-10 pages in length.
Instructor: K Hank Jost
Dates: TBD
Capacity: 15
Icicles filled the long window
With barbaric glass.
—Wallace Stevens
Rather than directly likening icicles and glass (“Icicles, like barbaric glass / filled the long window”) Stevens chooses to delay the deployment of his metaphor until the moment of the line break.
So, how does lineation modulate pacing? How does it open the channels to unspoken meanings and polyvalences? What can excellent poets’ approaches to the line teach us about timing, craft, and meaning in poetry?
In this 6-week generative workshop course, we’ll read various 20th and 21st century poets in pursuit of a focus on the line.
Students will have the opportunity to share their work every week, and to be closely, attentively read by their peers. We will offer suggestions to each other and imagine bold directions for revision. By the end of this course, students will turn in a flight of revised poems, about 7-10 pages in length.