Verify system requirements to ensure you and your computer can keep up. The eight-week class includes reading and writing assignments, a live discussion board, and weekly online live critiques of the poems you have written. Introduction to Poetry, Poetry and the Sacred, Publishing Prose and Poetry in the Small Press. Gotham Writers' Workshop Offers three poetry courses, only one is taught online currently. The course presents the fundamentals of poetry writing - voice, sound and rhythm, structure and syntax, imagery, and figurative language.
Emphasis is placed on the presentation and revision of poems.
You ll learn how to find out exactly what an editor is looking for, using three literary journals and a book publisher as examples. Twenty detailed lessons take you from creating precise, sensuous language, through imagery and sound, to patterning and structure. Members of the workshop learn by critiquing each others exercises, as well as by writing and being critiqued. The workshop is 'a poetry course with lab'. At the risk of sounding sophistic, we seek those whose approach to writing poetry is meticulous and craftsmanlike.