Students also explore ways in which to keep going while breaking into new voices and subject matter. In addition to writing poems with a focus on experimental verse, the final workshop focuses on the question of what being a poet entails. From the solitary work of reading and study, to writing groups, conferences, public performance and ways of serving the poetry community, students investigate the public life of a poet. Participants are guided in collecting their poems for book-length manuscripts or chapbooks. They are taken through the steps involved in making a chapbook or preparing a book-length manuscript for submission.
Class concludes with a public reading.
The program consists of an Autumn, Winter and Spring Quarter workshop.