WRIT 320 : Writing Poetry

This course will introduce students to the genre of poetry.  Students in this course will explore the craft techniques associated with writing poems, including description, imagery, metaphor, lineation, rhythm and syntax.  With these in mind, students will imitate contemporary poems and invent and revise their own.  Furthermore, this course will be an intensive study of poetry and the writing processes associated with it.  The class will be conducted as a writer’s workshop, in which students share their work and comment on that of their classmates.