ENGL 470 2015                  Course Outline

January         

8                      --introductions, class expectations, poet profile, why poetry?, Exercise #1                              (literary magazine), read poems together

15                    --lyric and free verse

                        --tropes and figurative language         

22                    --contemporary rhyme and rhythm

                        --imagist and narrative

                        --style, voice, and diction

                        --workshop protocol/set-up

                        --exercise #1 due

29                    --line break, form, and punctuation

                        --principles of closure, titles, formatting

                        --workshop

February

5                      --concrete/visual and sound poetry

                        --revision processes

                        --student-selected poet presentations

                        --workshop

12                    --“found” poetry, langpo, procedural, post-avant, conceptual

                        --student-selected poet presentations

                        --workshop

                        --exercise #2 due

                       

----Mid-Term Break----

26                    --the long poem, serial poem

                        --multivocality 

                        --class workshop

                        --draft due

                       

March

5                      --ecopoetry

                        --identity politics/political poetry

                        --guest authors

                        --class workshop

                       

12                    --some conventional forms

                        --chapbooks; group chapbook assignment

                        --guest authors

19                    --poetry online , multi-media, online writing, etc

                        --guest authors

                        --class workshop

                        --exercise #3 due       

26                    --class workshop

                        --publishing

April

2                      --class reading/party

--chapbooks due

5 (evening)     --writing field trip: chapbook fair at PG Public Library