FRIDAYS Intro to Poetry Writing (Poetry I) with Ron Salisbury

Please note: Although this class is offered as part of the Certificate in Poetry Writing, there is no pre-requisite to join this class. All students, members, and nonmembers are encouraged to enroll.

This workshop is designed to introduce you to the history of poetry today and provide a toolbox of techniques. The ultimate goal of the entire Certification process is to enable the writer to produce a publishable manuscript. In each workshop session, writing assignments or prompts will be provided as well as precise and qualitative feedback on the poems produced. Although not necessary, this workshop is designed to strongly encourage the generation of new work and the fine-tuning of previously written poems.

Upon completing this workshop, you will have:

Gained knowledge of the basic tools of the poet.

Experienced the productive quality of a read and critique workshop.

Read and analyzed two different books of poetry or poetry craft.

Developed an ability to actively analyze and critique a poem.

Established a writing habit of working from a prompt.