English CTCH. Form, Manifesto, and Wild Experiment: Poetry Workshop with Tina Chang

Instructor: Tina Chang
Wednesday, 9:00-11:45am | Location: TBD
Enrollment: Limited to 12 students

The tradition of poetry is widening, drawing from many art forms, blending and fusing to create contemporary cross-pollinated forms. In this class we will explore the many ways in which poetry is increasingly a hybrid beast, as innovative projects are envisioned across genres. We will begin with some traditional forms and move toward discussing the process by which poets work with visual art, comics, research and white space. We will practice the ekphrastic poem, long poem, zuihitsu, mosaic poem, erasure, collage, ghazal, pecha kucha, and the many formal experiments that make the current environment of poetry so eclectic and exciting. Class work will be comprised of student writing and critique, linguistic adventure, wild meanderings, in order to understand future possibilities for one’s own poems. The final project is a multi-disciplinary chapbook (no previous chapbook experience necessary) and an optional class reading. 

Supplemental Application Information: Please submit a a short letter of introduction and three poems.

Apply via Submittable (deadline: 11:59pm EDT on Sunday, November 9)