CRW 4320-Fall 2025-Kirby

Linus Pauling said, “The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas,” and the same is true for poems. Our classroom will be your garden. It’ll be your laboratory. Our classroom will be the little convenience store on the truck route that never closes as well as the high-volume, deep-discount retail poetry outlet that ships more units than anyone else in the tri-state area.This will be a bits-and-kits based course in which you’ll keep a daily journal of verbal “bits”you’ll move around until they become “kits” you’ll make into poems. You’ll map your poetic genealogy in our classroom, work with partners, lead discussions. We’ll teach, care for, and learn from one another unceasingly. Hit the gym! This may be the busiest class you’ve ever taken as well as one of the most fun. It always is. Make sure you take CRW 3311 (Poetic Technique) first, though -- that's where you'll learn the basics.