Clase magistral individual: Cómo escribir poesía excelente

From The Epic of Gilgamesh onward: People have been creating poetry for as long as we've been communicating on earth.  We need the poets to point the way, to express our unspoken needs and desires, to bring true beauty to the world.

1:1 MasterClass: How to Write Superb Poetry will give learners the opportunity to explore their own creative gifts and expand them through myriad forms of poetic expression.

This class is shaped by my own Jump Start Poetry: Learn to Write--and Appreciate--All Forms of Poetic Expression, but I will craft the class to the needs and interests of each learner. 

My whole method of teaching throughout all my classes is to listen to and respond to learners.  I value their input--I care deeply about what they have to say and what they think.

Moreover, amongst other things we will cover:

The Why of Poetry—and What Exactly is a Poem?
The How of Poetry—What Elements Help Craft a Poem?
The What of Poetry—What Kinds of Poetic Expression Are There?
The Who of Poetry—Your Own Poetic Expressions and Poetry of the Now and Future

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Poetry Forms Considered in this class may include:

Free Verse
Blank Verse
Lyric Poetry
Narrative Poetry
Epic Poetry
Villanelle
Sonnet
Ekphrasis Poetry
Haiku
Acrostic
Found Poetry

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Poetic Devices introduced and explained in this class may include:

Devices of Sound
Line (Metric feet)
Rhythm
Diction, Tone, Voice
Imagery

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Poetry considered throughout may include a wide diversity of poets and poetic expression:

Poetry by Marianne Moore
Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Tay Bridge Disaster by William McGonagall Ode to a Grecian Urn by John Keats
Hope is a thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for death by Emily Dickinson Birches by Robert Frost
Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The More Loving One by W.H. Auden
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Audubon: A Vision by Robert Penn Warren
The Tyger by William Blake
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Salutation by Ezra Pound
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Dreams by Langston Hughes
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Audubon: A Vision by Robert Penn Warren
The Tyger by William Blake
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
Salutation by Ezra Pound
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Dreams by Langston Hughes
The Starry Night by Anne Sexton
The Gift Outright by Robert Frost
The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman
Drink To Me With Thine Eyes by Ben Jonson
The Lucy Poems by William Wordsworth
Blowin’ in the Wind by Bob Dylan
Old Man Eating Alone in a Chinese Restaurant by Billy Collins 
The Work of Happiness by May Sarton


My whole method of teaching throughout all my classes is to listen to and respond to learners.  I value their input--I care deeply about what they have to say and what they think.