AFRC 114 - Poetry Writing Workshop

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Beavers. This course is not open to freshmen. Students wishing to take this course must submit a writing sample as part of the selection process. This workshop is intended to help students with prior experience writing poetry develop techniques to generate poems along with the critical tools necessary to revise and complete them. Through in-class exercises, weekly writing assignments, readings of established poets, and class critique, students will acquire an assortment of resources that will help them develop a more concrete sense of voice, rhythm, metaphor, and the image as well as a deeper understanding of how these things come together to make a successful poem. In addiiton to weekly writings, students will be asked to keep a journal, and to produce a final portfolio of poems.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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