ENG 4316
Advanced Poetry Workshop
Jennifer Maier
Tuesday 3:00-5:20 p.m.
An advanced, peer-review workshop in writing poetry, this course will guide students, step by step, through the process of drafting, revising, and finally submitting their work for possible publication by a literary journal.
Our focus will center on two questions: 1) What does it mean to think like a writer? and 2) How do writers develop a mature sense of audience?-- that is, an understanding of the ways in which the poet must be accountable (and interesting!) to a reader he or she may never meet.
For the most part, we’ll be critiquing and revising poems already in progress; however, students will also be expected to produce original work, to memorize and recite a longer poem of their choice, and to review, in writing, a volume of poetry by a contemporary poet.
Prerequisites: To take this course, students must have completed English 3316 (The Workshop in Writing Poetry), or have permission from the instructor.