Continuing Education Course Finder: ENGCS12-1a

Writing Poetry: States of the Art (ENGCS12-1a)

Status: Open

Fee: $240.00

Timing: 6 sessions from October 7, 2009 - November 11, 2009 on Wednesdays, 6:30PM-8:30PM

Course Description: This writing workshop is designed to help intermediate and advanced writers of poetry make their work grow stronger conceptually, technically, and thematically. There will be weekly reading and writing assignments based on texts by established and emerging poets, “insider” debates on aesthetics from “must-read” poetry blogs, and cutting edge essays on poetic technique and craft. Writers should bring approximately 10 xeroxed copies of two poems they would like to present for discussion on the first day of class. The primary goal of this workshop will be producing new work.

Instructor(s): Catherine Imbriglio

Instructor(s) Bio: Catherine Imbriglio is the author of Parts of the Mass (Burning Deck), which received the 2008 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her poetry has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Caliban, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, First Intensity, New American Writing, No: A Journal of the Arts, Pleiades, WebConjunctions and elsewhere. A selection of her poetry has been anthologized in The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, ed. Reginald Shepherd (University of Iowa Press, 2004). She is a recipient of an Untermeyer fellowship in poetry, a merit fellowship in poetry from the RI State Council on the Arts, and a Brown University UCS award for excellence in teaching. She is a member of the Nonfiction Writing Program faculty at Brown.