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, Assistant Professor
Program in Creative Writing, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota
| Уровень | Начинающий |
| Выполнение | 4-5 hours of lessons and assessments |
| Язык | Английский |
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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 материала 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.
Рейтинги и отзывы
I am just over half way though this course and it is amazing. The content is great. Doug's video lectures are enjoyable, enthralling and thought provoking. I continue to amaze myself as to what i do and don't know.
I am learning more than i anticipated with a short course. Keen to see where my new found knowledge leads me...
Exremely inspiring, informative and encouraging. Pace is just right too. Thank you so much.
Amazing course. The instructor was great and had a really fun teaching style that kept me interested, and the mentors were very helpful. I learned a lot about poetry through this course and would recommend it to anyone wanting to challenge themselves and become better poets.
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JM
This course is great, but if you are looking for something challenging, this might not be the one. Overall, though, it helped me to go back to the basics and analyze my poetry from a foundational standpoint.