LA 361 - Microcosm/Macrocosm:Topics in Poetry

Institution:

The Boston Conservatory

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Description:

3 hours weekly; 3 credits This elective in creative writing is a workshop in which students will explore a wide range of poetic styles and forms from the most precisely focused and microscopic-haiku-to the mostbroad and inclusive-the prose poem. We will explore the ways poetry tunnels inward to unknown regions of emotion in the self, as well as spirals outward to span the cosmic worlds opened up by the sciences and contemporary media and technology. Students who have never written poetry are welcome to joint this class, which will give them the basic tools and methods to explore creative writing in a variety of poetic forms. Students who identify themselves as poets or who have some experience writing poetry will find themselves challenged by the variety of experiments, exercises, and examples. The class has proven useful in the past to student choreographers and composers interested in working with texts, since much emphasis is places on analysis of compositional processes and techniques. The course focuses on in-class writing exercises, the reading and work-shopping of student poems. This is not an analytic course in interpreting poems, but a hands-on class in discovering practical methods and directions in examples of other poets. The class also teaches students to develop a sophisticated critical vocabulary to discuss published poems as well as their own. The class also teaches students how to read poems aloud. In lieu of a final exam, students organize and present a 'final collection' of the poems they have written during the semester. Students willalso write three short response essays on contemporary prose poems.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bostonconservatory.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 536-6340

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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