Instr:                William Harrold
Office:              CRT 489,     229-5454
e-mail:              whlyrich@uwm.edu
Office hours:     by appointment.

Course Information:          T-R: 12:30-1:45          Curtin 68

Course Description

The Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop implies that the students have had experience in writing, usually from taking other, required undergraduate courses. Given the experience,  come with your talents and your work ethic in hand.  Perspiration still forms on the poet’s brow. The course will have a workshop format, which implies constant writing (a poem a week), along with various projects and experiments designed to inspire and stimulate the students not only to do their best writing, but to swing out into new fields and try experiments that otherwise would have passed him or her by.

In addition to writing poetry, we will be engaged in the process of learning how to become our own best critics,  not only of the work of others but of our own writing. A vocabulary of critical terminology is something you always need in your back pocket. We will create our own. So no purchase is necessary.

All poems will be discussed in the workshop, with (copies for everyone). Class members will write twelve poems to be handed in as a final project at the end of the semester, along with a two-page review of a poetry-related event which you will attend.

Text
 A personal text book  (to be decided on after classes begin)

Requirements:
1. Consistently high quality in-class participation, which implies excellent attendance.

2. Completing all assignments by the dates assigned

3. One Gift Poem (to be described in class)

4. Two poems written in response to the other arts

5.   One Treasure Hunt poem (to be described in class)

6.   Poems periodically distributed in class for critiquing

7.  A final project consisting of twelve poems (including those above), along with a two-page review of a poetry-related event you attended during the semester.