Description
This creative-writing workshop focuses on the single best-known form in lyric poetry: the sonnet. Students will learn the fundamentals of poetic meter and poetic form, including the skill of writing in iambic pentameter. Course readings span six centuries of the sonnet in English and include Ted Berrigan, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, John Keats, Ben Lerner, Claude McKay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Milton, Sylvia Plath, Christina Rossetti, Diane Seuss, Edmund Spenser, Jean Toomer, Thomas Wyatt, and more. Coursework includes critiques, presentations, and final portfolio. This classroom is analog only—use of electronic devices is not permitted in the classroom.