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PoetryEnjoy a Non-English Poem beyond TranslationS11-P01
Course Cancelled
Springing Into Poetry: Reading, Writing, and A ReadingS11-P02
Deep Revision: An Advanced Workshop for PoetsS11-P03
Encounter: Writing Landscape PoetryS11-P04
Unpuzzling the Poem: An Introductory Poetry WorkshopS11-P05
Advanced Poetry WritingS11-P06
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| Writers & Books, Rochester's community literary center, inspires and instructs over 25,000 people each year through a wide array of offerings in nearly every literary genre. Believing that the written and spoken word are central to our lives and culture, Writers & Books celebrates, promotes and works to make them available to all. Writers & Books is located at 740 University Avenue, near Atlantic Avenue in the Neighborhood of the Arts. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Have you ever wondered what one of Rumi’s poems really sound like in the original? Or Rilke? Szymborska? Pushkin? What did Chaucer really sound like? The voice of a poet’s original language, and choice of sound, syllable count and line break, cannot be rendered into a second language, however, we can link the sound and syntax of the original, compare translations to have an idea of the fun of the creative process. In this class, students will read aloud different translations of the same poem and compare with the original language provided by the teacher. Lively examples will demonstrate the creative sparks that leap between languages and cultures, image and dance. Reference will be made to ASL and the work done to capture the vibrancy of sound as it informs overall meaning in deaf interpretation. 
Spring is the inspiration for this class! The idea is to experience from various angles poetry about spring. Each session will open with discussions of poems by writers as diverse as Mary Oliver, Walt Whitman, Maxine Kumin, William Wordsworth, and numerous others. Particular care will be given to how the crafting of the poem helps to create its meaning. Each session will also provide independent time for writing a spring poem, including sharing, commenting, and revising. As a final celebration, the class members will read the poems they have written at a special reading at Writers & Books (to take place in the final session). Please note: This reading is part of the class, and those enrolled are expected to participate.
How often do we give up on a recalcitrant poem, or settle for a draft we know isn’t what it could be? In this intensive, learn and practice a variety of techniques and processes for deeply revising a piece of work to make it as good, in terms of both craft and inspiration, as it can be. Bring copies of one poem (you will be told in advance how many copies) to workshop with the group. No “critiquing” -- just gentle help. Expect amazing results! A bibliography and handouts are included.
The instructor will provide examples of tools to understand and appreciate landscapes (photographs, paintings, maps of various sorts) and examples of poems, his own and others’ (such as Wordsworth) that use landscapes. Students will observe, think and respond. Students should bring their wits, paper and pencil.
If writing is considered a means for communication, why does poetry so often seem cryptic and confusing? In this introductory workshop we will work to dispel the notion of the poem as something to be solved or explained, and instead focus on poetry as a means for exploration. Through discussion and workshop, we will work toward crafting various styles of contemporary poems, rendering the world through sensory experience, metaphor, rhythm, syntax and memory. Students will read one another’s pieces in a safe workshop environment, helping them to improve both their poetic skills as well as their ability to comment effectively on their peers’ work. Discussions will also include essays on various topics. No previous knowledge or experience with poetry necessary. 
This course is for those who have had experience writing and reading poems and would like to become better writers, more attentive to form and pattern. We will read a wide variety of poems and, after discussing the works of other writers, we will create our own metered, rhymed and free-verse poems based on the models we’ve studied. Each week will be devoted to the study of one specific aspect of poetry (i.e. image, line, syntax, rhyme, meter, etc.). Additionally, we will dedicate time to the practice of revision so that some portion of the course will involve reworking drafts of poems substantially.