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Schemel Forum Course- Crossing the Line(s)- Reading and Writing Contemporary Poetry

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Monday, 26 September, 2022

Crossing the Line(s): Reading and Writing Contemporary Poetry

In this seminar, we will develop a vocabulary for the shared practice of close-reading forms of poetry, both the forms of poetry you might have encountered in textbooks decades ago (e.g., the sonnet, the villanelle, the sestina, the pantoum) and much newer forms invented by living poets (e.g., the Golden Shovel, the duplex, the pecha kucha). We’ll analyze and engage poems both canonical and contemporary, and participants will be invited (though not required) to write their own poems. There will be time for sharing and discussion during each course meeting. We’ll consider the relationship between poetic form and content and in addition, we’ll consider what poetry can do for us in our own lives as readers and writers.

Billie Tadros, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of English & Theatre, The University of Scranton

Mondays, September 19, 26 & October 3, 17, 24, 31  

6:00 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. • In Person- Weinberg Memorial Library, Room 305

Contact Kym.Fetsko@scranton.edu to register for the six week course. 

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Kym Fetsko

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Weinberg Memorial Library, Room 305

300 Monroe Avenue
 Scranton, PA 18510