CRW 5331 - Spring 2025 - Weise

In this graduate poetry workshop, emphasis will be on your poems and the writing you generate during the course. I typically run workshop with a bit of the traditional model and some new ways to give each poet an opportunity to speak on the poet’s own process. I consider workshop to be a collective space. I expect to learn from poets enrolled in the course, and I expect poets to learn from me as instructor of record. We are equals. I’m thinking of Shelley’s line from “A Defence of Poetry” – “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Do we feel like “unacknowledged legislators of the world” or not really? How do we make poems? And why?