The course explores strategies in accessing the poetic imagination through image, drama, and form. Each lesson discusses ways to approach a particular poetic problem, with reading assignments providing examples of how other poets solved these problems, and with writing assignments designed to allow the student to grapple with these problems in a very practical manner. This course is intended for committed student-poets with considerable experience in writing and reading poems. Instructor Your instructor will be a current member of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Orders are shipped via UPS, so please include a street address.
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Since changes in edition can take place, students are advised to wait and purchase texts after enrolling in the course and receiving the course study guide. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry . Charles Simic and Mark Strand, eds. Another Republic .