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It doesn’t stop wars, feed the hungry or stop the earth from being abused. Yet it is perhaps precisely of its non-utilitarian value that we need it so much, every crust, every scrap of it. In a world where everything is measured in economic terms, poetry is essential because it resists being calibrated, reminding us that the seemingly most useless things are the most vital to our being alive.  \nThat is what poets do each day, paying attention to what seems insignificant and worthless. Being attentive, observing Pound’s imperative to making it new again and again, and making connections, wiring the different parts within themselves and also awakening hidden connections to the rest of the world. Images, events, thoughts are inexplicably related, brought together in a significant but not immediately comprehensible conjunction. As Robert Frost says, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”  \nWe will learn the art of paying attention and of discovering poetry in the everyday. We will track the poetic process, from the initial inspiration and first draft to the finished product, and appreciate poetry as an act of making and shaping. Poetry isnot something abstract but has a visceral presence that is made possible by elements of sound, rhythm, imagery and form. In the first half of each session, we will explore techniques of poetic making through close readings of exemplary poems, and examine some of the poetics or poetic ideas that have sustained poets in life and writing. As good poets devour poetry all the time, we will embark on an intensive reading program, reading poetry from a variety of periods. We will study traditional forms as well as explore postmodern and contemporary trends to learn to be more experimental in poem-making. The reading will also develop critical skills necessary in workshop critique, which happens in the second half of each session, when we provide constructive feedback to help bring the workshop drafts closer to their final form.  \nCourse Outline  \n\n| Week | Topic* | Reading* |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | What is Poetry? | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| 2 | Only Connect/ Paying Attention | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| 3 | Conversing with Traditions/ Poetic Forms 1 | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n\n\n| 4 | The Work of Memory | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 5 | Poetry of Place | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| 6 | Stretching the Line-the Prose Poem | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| 7 | Conversing with Traditions/ Poetic Forms 2 | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| 8 | RECESS WEEK |  |\n| 9 | Poetry of the Self | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| 10 | Who’s Talking? The Dramatic Monologue | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| 11 | Poetry in Translation | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| 12 | Thinking Imagery | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| 13 | The Elegy | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| 14 | Final Workshop | Course Notes and Readings posted on Blackboard |\n| TBA | Final Assessment Due |  |\n\n*Course Outline: Please note that the outline is indicative. Topics covered from week to week will vary in order and emphasis depending on the direction provided by the course participants.  \nLearning Outcomes  \nStudents will:  \n1. 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