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Gen Ed 1172. Poetry in America: Writing America 1620-1850

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Instructor: Elisa New Thursday, 3:00-5:00pm | Location: TBA This General Education course will contemplate art's formative role in the development of civilizations by allowing students to trace the gradual development of America's self-conception through...

Manuscript Workshop: A Repertoire of Perceptions: Essays on Poetry and Poetics

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Please join the Harvard University Department of English for a workshop addressing the book manuscript A Repertoire of Perceptions: Essays on Poetry and Poetics by Professor Vidyan Ravinthiran. This event is open to all members of the Harvard community...

English CHCR. Advanced Poetry: Workshop

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Instructor: Josh Bell Tuesday, 12:45-2:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students. Course Site By guided reading, classroom discussion, one on one conference, and formal and structural experimentation, members of the Advanced Poetry Workshop...

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

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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...

English CHCR. Advanced Poetry: Workshop

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Instructor: Josh Bell Fall 2026 Monday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD Spring 2027 TBD | Location: TBD Spring 2026 Monday, 6:00-8:45pm | Location: TBD Enrollment: Limited to 12 students By guided reading, classroom discussion, one on one conference, and...

Colleagues, Students Remember Helen Vendler, a 'Titan' of Poetry Criticism

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Professors Glenda Carpio, Stephanie Burt, Gordon Teskey, and former graduate student Christopher Spaide, PhD ’19, remember Helen Vendler in the following piece by The Harvard Gazette. An excerpt is included below: "When Helen Vendler taught William Blake...

English CCEP. Ekphrastic Poetry: Workshop

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Instructor: Tracy K. Smith Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: Lamont 401 Enrollment: Limited to 12 students Course Site What can a poem achieve when it contemplates or even emulates a work of art in another medium? In this workshop, we'll read and write...

Tracy K. Smith's Poetry Collection Included on Harvard Crimson Must-Read List

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The Harvard Crimson recently featured a list of works from eight must-read female poets, including Tracy K. Smith's "Life on Mars." A description of the poetry collection is included below: "A former U.S. poet laureate and current professor at Harvard...

Morris Gray Poetry Reading Featuring Alice Oswald & Juan Felipe Herrera

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Poet Alice Oswald was trained as a classicist at New College, University of Oxford. Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), received a Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. Oswald often works in book-length...

English 187x. Twentieth Century American Poetry

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Instructor: Peter Sacks Wednesday, 3:00-5:45 pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Course Site A study of selected American poetry, mostly published after 1945. Authors include Marianne Moore, Muriel Rukeyser...

English 90er. Poetry, Creatures, the Earth

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Instructor: Peter Sacks Wednesday, 12:00-2:45pm | Location: Please login to the course catalog at my.harvard.edu for location Enrollment: Limited to 15 students. Course Site How has poetry served as one of the most powerful means by which to express the...

English 125lp. English Lyric Poetry from the Renaissance to the Romantics

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Instructor: Gordon Teskey Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:30-2:45 pm | Location: Barker 024 Website Lyric poems are short bursts of metrically organized language that capture, in art, moments of entangled feeling and thought. How has lyric poetry in English...