This graduate poetry workshop will focus on generating new student work, and on orienting that work within a literary historical and contemporary tradition. Toward that end we will consider various essays which attempt to characterize relatively recent poetic movements, including but not limited to the so-called elliptical, post-avant, post-language, and new sincerity poetries. However, we’ll look to these accounts less as foreground than background to the discussion of student creative work. Students will also be invited to develop various techniques of revision, both through exercises and class discussion.