> In this course we will examine the workings and origins of poetry through the study of craft elements such as
> meter, line, stanza, form, image, syntax, etc., as well as the wider social themes indexed in contemporary English-language poetry. Through intensive close reading, written exercises, and formal writing > assignments, we will approach poetic texts not only as communicative and artistic acts, but as artifacts of culture and history best understood through the lens of the writer him/herself. We will learn to read as writers—to be attentive to sound, sense, and the workings
> of tone—and to write as readers; that is, with the understanding that writing is a social act, and that every poem is in some way a response to the overlapping “regional, ethnic, racial, social, and sexual” identities that comprise our twenty-first century selves.
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