CRW 3311 Spring 2025 - Sokolowski

This course will ask you to relax your preconceptions about what poetry should look, feel, and sound like. With this open and curious eye, you'll work toward building the discipline and technical skills necessary to produce effective work. We'll enjoy a variety of class formats designed to help you hone your skills and ability to contribute to poetic forums. Course readings will consist of several full-length poetry collections by contemporary authors and some craft essays along the way. The ultimate goal of this course is to produce multiple poems (circling of our theme of poetic obsessions) which, after workshop and revision, should be of publishable quality. You'll leave this class a stronger reader and writer.