CRW 5331 Fall 2024 Kimbrell

This workshop will include weekly discussion of student poems but will also involve presentations and discussions of work from the most recent annual installment of Best American Poetry (series ed., David Lehman). We will conduct a broad and thorough review of the poets and poems as well as poets’ statements in the appendix. Workshop participants will submit original poems, give one presentation on a selection from BAP, and complete the workshop with a revised portfolio along with a publishable review of a single volume of poems released in the past two years. Among the goals of this workshop, my main hope is that each poet will finish the semester with a rich and more historically informed basis upon which to craft their own poems.

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.