CRW 4320 Spring 2022 Weise

In “A Few Hints toward the Making of Poetry,” Gwendolyn Brooks writes. “If you feature a garden, speak of that garden most personally. If you have murdered in a garden, the grass and flowers (and weeds) will mean something different to you than to someone who has only planted or picked.” Surely, we have not murdered in a garden. But Brooks reminds us that poems are capacious enough for all kinds of speakers. Not just morally righteous speakers. Not just speakers who are beyond reproach. Let the speakers of our poems be opinionated, often wrong, going on too long and wayward from Eden. The majority of class time will be spent on the workshop of your poems.

This course meets the Scholarship in Practice (s) requirement for Liberal Studies.