ENGL 2270 CA - CW: Introduction to Writing Poetry

Credits: (3)
Typically Taught Summer Semester: Check with Department
Typically Taught Fall Semester: Full Sem
Typically Taught Spring Semester: Full Sem - Online
Description: This course introduces students to writing original poetry.  Students will read as models a judicious sampling of poems by contemporary poets as selected by the professor in order to build a vocabulary for analyzing aspects of poetic craft, such as form, line, prosody, image, sound, narrative, and lyric.  Using guided writing exercises and journaling, students will develop their ideas into original poems for a series of in-class writing workshops.  Students will critique and be critiqued by their peers in order to revise their poems.
Pre-requisite(s): ENGL 1010 , ENGL 2010 , or ENGL 2015 .