Interdisciplinary Arts 0201 - The Lyric Poem: Creative Writing Workshop

Increasingly, it would seem to be the preference of readers in our neo-narrative age, age of biography and memoir, age of the talk show: an appetite for story. For narrative. But the lyric poet might just as easily say that every narrative poem obscures a lyric and suspends time. What happens when a poem is more concerned with "how something felt" than "what happened"? In this course, participants will investigate such questions, as well as the lyric poem at various levels of craft and technique. Students will draft and revise lyric poems of their own and consider, in written responses, the merits of the lyric over the narrative mode. Students may read work by Charles Wright, Donald Justice, Donika Kelly, Sandra Beasley, and Emily Dickinson, among others. (keywords: #creativewriting #time #poetryworkshop #narrative)

Time and Narrative Students in this course can expect to spend 6 to 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.