CRW 5331 Fall 2023 Suárez
This course is going to assume that as a graduate student you have been writing poems for a while and have reached the point where you want to workshop your very best poems to get them ready for submission and publication. We will discuss all aspects and stages of poem publication. The many lives a poem has after you have given it breath and legs. Literary trends and contemporary poetry economics will be considered at all times. The class will be conducted half as a warm-up discussion that will then lead to workshopping your poems during every class. You are encouraged to workshop a chapbook length collection of poems during the semester.
Requirements: For MFA students, this course satisfies 3 of the required 12-15 hours of writing workshops. For PhD students, it counts toward the 27 hours of required coursework.