Poetry Workshop

Annotation

The Poetry Workshop will focus on daily critiques of individual poems with supplemental lectures on the dominant literary theorists of the Twentieth century and the resulting poetics which have influencedboth contemporary American and Czech writing. It is the hope that an understanding of the eclectic nature of the poetics discussed will be integrated in the student´s own writing throughout workshop sessions.

We will critique existing or newly conceived works with the intention of completeing a chapbook of at least 5 or 6 poems (depending upon how ambitious we can be). Lectures as listed in the full syllabus may be interchanged or rescheduled as needed to allow ample ime for poetry critiques.

My goal is to allow each writer the personal exploration of his or her own style, voice, and poetics.