Instr: Firer, Susan
Office: CRT 576; 229-6993
e-mail: sfirer@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: MW; 12:30pm - 1:45pm; CRT 284
Richard Hugo writes, "I've come to believe that one learns to write only by writing." While I share Hugo's belief, I also believe one learns strategies of writing from reading. The concentration in the 416 Poetry Workshop will, therefore, be twofold: we will read, listen, and respond to/critique students' writings, and we will also read and discuss established writers' works found in the class texts and in literary periodicals. When Raymond Carver took Creative Writing 101, his instructor John Gardner told him that literary periodicals were "where most of the best fiction in the country and just about all of the poetry was appearing." We will study literary periodicals in order to observe the diversity of contemporary poetry and then experiment with techniques identified through these readings.
