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Poetry
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REGISTRATION: COST, LENGTH, PREREQUISITES: |
Teacher-approved
registration ONLY. Do NOT register unless you have received instructor
approval. Admission
will be based on writing examples (no fewer than three poems) submitted
to instructor
Standard course: $200 / 8 weeks. Click here to register Extended
schedule: $250 / 16 weeks. Click
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COURSE
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COURSE
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An intensive, eight week poetry workshop in which we'll be dealing with poetry written in prescribed forms as well as open form "free verse" poetry, and the prose poem. There will be eight weekly topics and topic lectures emailed to you, along with essays or essay-excerpts for study, and poem examples. Each week presents one specific aspect of the process of reading and writing poetry, along with a corresponding writing assignment. You will be expected to read and critique the work of your fellow classmates, as well. Though we know and understand that writing is a very private and personal endeavor, there comes a time when we need and benefit from what others say about our efforts. The give and take of feedback the "workshop" environment provides, which sometimes becomes a tug-of-war of will, intention, and understanding brings the poet into the world, and offers him or her the opportunity and challenge of community. Though we do indeed write alone, John Donne's famous phrase that, "no man is an island" suggests what should be obvious to all of us. This workshop provides you with an environment in which you'll explore, with others, complex topics and ideas that we all struggle with, as poets. It will enable you to further develop your skills as both writer and reader and, ultimately, provide you with a basis for a broader understanding of what lies ahead, as well a real-time sense of how your own poems are being heard by others. Admission will be based on writing examples (no fewer than three poems) submitted to the instructor. See below for more information. |
It was everything I expected and more. Paul was extremely dedicated to leading the workshop. His lectures were thought-provoking, and he provided excellent feedback on my writing. I also especially enjoyed the opportunity to receive critiques and feedback from the other members in the workshop. - Deanne "The work I put in on this course overshadowed what I needed to do for an in-person, three-unit writing course at Stanford. This was serious scholarship." - Melanie |
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Week 1: Introduction: Week
2: Forms Week
3: Forms Week
4: form/revision Week
5: Open Form Week
6: Open Form Week
7: Open Form Week
8: revision |
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ABOUT
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Paul R. Haenel, has a BA in English (Creative Writing Option) from Penn State, where he studied poetry with John Haag and John Balaban, and fiction writing with Peter Schneeman and Paul West. Paul has recently worked in the MFA program at George Mason University, studying with Eric Pankey and Carolyn Forche. Paul's poems have appeared in Antietam Review, The Wallace Stevens Journal, Poet & Critic, Poet Lore, Cottonwood, The Maryland Poetry Review, and many others. Paul's first volume of poems, Farewell, Goodbye, Wave Goodbye, was published in the spring of 1994. Paul was among the founding members of the Poetry Workshop in the Writer's Club on AOL (1991), and was host of the shop from late 1995 until early '97. Haenel has also published short fiction, and one of his stories was nominated in 1992 for a Pushcart Prize. He has written essays on poetry for the literary journal Twin Rivers Review. Most recently, his work has appeared in the anthology Line Drives, 100 Contemporary Baseball Poems, edited by Brooke Horvath and Tim Wiles, 2002, Southern Illinois University Press. Paul's most rercent poetry appeared in Two Rivers Review, The Potomac Review and Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller's Cabin, 1984-2001. For a sample of Paul's poetry, click here: http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacreview/haenel.htm |
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