CRW 5331 Spring 2018 Hamby

This is a poetry workshop, so the primary emphasis is writing and a two-hour workshop. For the craft part of the class we will be looking at excerpts from the letters of the poets. I will post excerpts on Canvas, and class discussion will center on what these letters tell us about becoming a poet. We will begin with Ovid and Horace and end with the Beat Poets—Ginsberg, Kerouac, Snyder, and Philip Whalen. Other poets we will read are Keats, Dickinson, Plath, Sexton, Bishop and Lowell, Rimbaud, Rilke, and Langston Hughes.