Poets will build their poetry-writing skills with help from past and
contemporary masters--everything from generating ideas to examining the
finished poem.
They'll learn how to:
* Use journals to develop their
observational skills and turn life experiences into ideas for poems
*
Master the tools of the trade--voice, line, stanza, title, meter and
rhyme
* Acquire fluency in a variety of poetry formats and forms,
everything from narrative, lyric and dramatic verse (traditional
formats) to fixed, free and sequence styles (traditional forms)
* Fine
tune their work Exercises, assignments and sample work from more than
100 standout poets--everyone from Louise Glück to Walt Whitman--ensure
that every reader, whether poet, student or bibliophile, discovers just
how extraordinary poetry can be.