CRW 5531-Fall 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 blend of the traditional model and some new ways to give each poet an opportunity to speak on the poet’s own process. In practice, this means we may ask questions such as: Who speaks? Who gets to speak? What are they saying? What are they not saying? I think of Julia Alverez who wrote, “I didn’t know it could be done. I had never seen it done. I had, in fact, been told it couldn’t be done.”