- Poetry New York

Institution:

The Evergreen State College

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Description:

Faculty: Leonard Schwartz (poetics, creative writing) Major areas of study include creative writing, poetics, performance studies, literary criticism, American literature and exile literature. Class Standing: Sophomore or above; transfer students welcome. Prerequisites: Faculty signature required (see below). Faculty Signature: To obtain a faculty signature, students must submit a ten page portfolio of poetry or critical writing and interview with the faculty. To make an appointment, contact Leonard Schwartz, (360) 867-5412 or schwartl@evergreen. edu. Portfolios received by the Academic Fair, March 5, 2008, will be given priority. Qualified students will be accepted until the program fills. The goal of Poetry New York will be to immerse students in an intense and various writing community, both as writers of poetry themselves and as critical writers. It is hoped that this daily contact with practicing writers, poets, translators, and publishers will advance each student's writing horizons and range of reading possibilities, demystifying the practice and profession of writing while inspiring students to advance in their own art. This field study program features an immersion in New York City's poetry, literary and publishing worlds. We will spend two weeks on campus preparing for our trip by way of various readings in New York's literary history and in The New York School of Poets. The program will then fly to New York City for six weeks, where we will take up classroom residency at The Bowery Poetry Club, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. By arrangement with the Club we will use its space as a classroom for daily meetings, as a venue for our own readings and as locale for attending readings. The Bowery Poetry Club is a caf, classroom and stage space that currently serves as the center for numerous literary scenes in NYC, including those of an experimental tradition, a spoken word and performance tradition, and various ethnically identified writing scenes. Students will pursue their own writing, write critical pieces on the poetry they hear, read, interview poets they meet, and be required to attend at least one event a day (or night) across the city: The Bowery Poetry Club, The St. Marks Poetry Project, The Academy of American Poets, The New York Public Library, and so on, are all options for students to pursue their writing. Local projects might include working on poems to appear in public spaces in the city, working collaboratively on translations of poets in town writing in other languages, or compiling a journal of field notes. Field trips will also be arranged to the offices of various publishers of the instructor's acquaintance to study, close up, the way in which literature is made. Some of these publishers might include: New Directions Publishing Company, The New York Review Of Books, Archipelago Books, Seven Stories Press, etc. The final two weeks of the quarter will be spent back on campus in Olympia, debriefing, finishing poems and essays, and producing an anthology of our work. Total Credits: 12 or 16 credits. Enrollment: 25 Special Expenses: Approximately $2,000 for airfare to New York City, food and lodging for six weeks, in addition to some ticket fees for special events. The instructor will have suggestions about living arrangements. Program is preparatory for careers and future studies in writing, art, editing and publishing. top

Credits:

12.00 - 16.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.evergreen.edu

Phone Number:

(360) 867-6170

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Quarter

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