Об этом курсе: Why just write poems when you can write better ones? This course is built on the notion that the most exciting writing begins after the first draft. It is specifically for folks who believe that writing poems just to express oneself is like using the Internet just for email. After all, poetry can change the way you and your readers think of the world and its inhabitants; it can break new ground for language; turn a blank sheet of paper into a teeming concert of voices and music. Though any of us may have the potential to make that happen, having an understanding of how several tools of poetic composition can be used (and audaciously “mis-used”) gives you more ways to try (and if we do this right, we might surprise ourselves most of all). We'll cover key poetic terms and devices by studying poems by a handful of modern and contemporary poets and then get a chance to try our own hand at writing new poem drafts from a select number of prompts. Throughout the course you will have the opportunity to workshop your poem drafts and get feedback on your work, working towards a more polished poem.

Автор: California Institute of the Arts

Преподаватели: Douglas Kearney, Faculty, MFA in Writing Program
Critical Studies

Уровень	Beginner
Выполнение	4-5 hours of lessons and assessments
Язык	English
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Программа курса

НЕДЕЛЯ 1

Introduction and the Poetic Line

Poetry orchestrates its music, arguments, tensions, and environment via arrangements of language into lines and stanzas. This week we’ll address the importance of the line break, perhaps the most conspicuous, signature tool in the poet’s toolkit. Do you break more for sound, for sense, visual effect, shape, a mix of several? We’ll participate in several line break exercises and remix found poems. Also: prepare for your first quiz and a fun first writing prompt.

8 видео, 4 материалов для самостоятельного изучения

Reading: Syllabus
Видео: The Workshop Process
Видео: Workshopping in a MOOC, part 1
Reading: Workshopping in a MOOC, part 2
Reading: Course Resources
Видео: The Starting Line
Видео: Rack ‘em Up: Gwendolyn Brooks' We Real Cool
Видео: We/Read Close. We/Take note.
Видео: Game Over
Видео: Poetry Prompt 1: Line
Reading: Week 1 Summary

Оцениваемый: On the Line

НЕДЕЛЯ 2

Abstraction and Image

Abstraction doesn’t mean “deep,” and image doesn’t mean “picture.” Images are typically understood as anything you can literally touch/taste/see/hear/smell, and abstractions are those things for which we have symbols (a clock for “time,” a heart for “love”) but no image. Abstractions and images may fill our poems, but how can you tell what’s what, and how can you leverage them to compelling ends? This week we’ll work at finding new symbols to replace clichéd ones for abstractions and we’ll work at crafting images that do more than add furniture to a poem, but create systems of relationships, moods, and even style.

5 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения

Видео: Beauty’s in the Eye of the Bewildered: Harryette Mullen's [if your complexion is a mess.]
Видео: The Wonky Chocolate Factory
Видео: Read in the Shade
Видео: Poetry Prompt 2: Abstraction & Image
Reading: Week 2 Summary

Оцениваемый: Abstraction & Image

НЕДЕЛЯ 3

Metaphor and Other Formulas of Difference

Most of us think of simile and metaphor, personification and other similar figures of speech as being about similarities between objects, concepts, and entities. But the juice in these formulas comes from how different the two things being compared seem to be. This is why writing: “the shark moved like a fish” is, alone, a lot less interesting than saying “the shark moved like a squad car.” We’ll talk about how playing with difference via juxtaposition can create a range of poetic effects. Then you’ll write a poem built of one robustly developed or several contrasting juxtapositions. We'll end this module with yet another quiz, and our first poetry workshop -- facilitated through a peer assessed assignment.

5 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения

Видео: Home Cooking: Victor Hernández Cruz's Red Beans
Видео: Lilies and Lava
Видео: After Dinner Meant
Видео: Poetry Prompt 3: Metaphor
Reading: Week 3 Summary

Оцениваемый: Metaphor

Оцениваемый: First Workshop

НЕДЕЛЯ 4

Rhyme

This week we’ll explore how rhyme leverages patterns of sameness and how we can estrange similarity for compelling poetic effects. We’ll check out examples of “rhyme”—sonic, visual, conceptual—from outside of poetry too.

5 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения

Видео: There’s No “A” in Showdown: Cathy Park Hong's Ballad in A
Видео: Lipo-what?!
Видео: What That Was
Видео: Poetry Prompt 4: Rhyme
Reading: Week 4 Summary

Оцениваемый: Rhyme

НЕДЕЛЯ 5

Rhythm

All spoken language has rhythm, the trick is working the rhythm in such a way that drives your poem toward the effects you’re after. Maybe you want a fluid, seductive, propulsive rhythm. Perhaps something that halts or stutters. We’ll use traditional western concepts of meter as a means to open the door to this discussion, but we may leave them at the door upon entry.

6 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения

Видео: Rock “The Bells”: Edgar Allan Poe's The Bells
Видео: Put A Ring On It
Видео: For Whom the Bell Falls
Видео: Clap Clap Clap
Видео: Poetry Prompt 5: Rhythm
Reading: Week 5 Summary

Оцениваемый: Rhythm

Оцениваемый: Second Workshop

НЕДЕЛЯ 6

Sharpened Poetry: Revision Strategies

When you revise a poem, you are not trying to dull the emotional flash of your first draft. You must, instead, intensify it. In this, our final week, we’ll discuss the difference between revision and editing, the art of reading your own work critically, and the beauty of drafts. For your final peer review, you’ll turn in (and in turn, assess) a revision of one of the poems from the preceding 5 modules.

11 видео, 1 материал для самостоятельного изучения

Видео: What is Revision?
Видео: Where Do I Start Revising?
Видео: How Do I Start Revising a Poem I’ve Written in Form?
Видео: How do I Incorporate Workshop Feedback Into the Revision Process?
Видео: Revision Recap
Видео: Give Yourself A Break
Видео: Furniture and Figures
Видео: Just in the Nick of Rhyme
Видео: Rhythm-a-Ning-a-Gain
Видео: Final Thoughts
Reading: Course Credits

Оцениваемый: Final Workshop

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California Institute of the Arts

CalArts has earned an international reputation as the leading college of the visual and performing arts in the United States. Offering rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs through six schools—Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater—CalArts has championed creative excellence, critical reflection, and the development of new forms and expressions.

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Оценка 4.7 из 5 по 638 отзывам

This course is really helpful in the terms as it dissects a good amount of poetry and its techniques and is presented in a real fun way. Also the poetry prompts given are really amazing and the poetry that you get to read of other peers is also just an add on. Really a beautiful course. I just wish it was more longer and had more to it.

A great set of courses for beginners or just people who would like to polish their writing with the community of writers here. Doug is a great teacher, both entertaining and efficient in teaching. I will be entering college this fall and wanted to have a stepping stone, and I believe it worked fairly well. Amazing and useful course.

I am not yet finished this course, but so far it is sizing up to be great. Of the courses I have tested on this site, which are many, this is one of the better conceived ones, and you can tell the teacher is very committed to his work. He takes advantage of video lecturing as a medium, using various techniques to make his videos more engaging but without sacrificing didactic content. Otherwise it is what you would expect an online writing workshop to be: provided are writing prompts for practicing your skills, and near the end are sessions for sharing your work.