poetry

Overview Twelve experienced faculty members from across the United States present their analyses of ground-breaking modern American poets in richly illustrated video lectures. The course highlights both major poets—from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson through T.S. Eliot, H.D., Amy Lowell, Hart...

Overview ModPo is a fast-paced introduction to modern and contemporary U.S. poetry, with an emphasis on experimental verse, from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the present. Participants (who need no prior experience with poetry) will learn how to read poems that are supposedly "difficult."...

Overview Discover the power of poetry, and learn to write your own This course explores what inspires poetry, how we write poems and how to tell when your poem is finished. Whether you’ve never written a poem before, or you‘ve been secretly writing away for some years, this course provides a...

Overview Explore, understand and critique poetry What are the different ways you can understand a poem? How do different elements of a poem work together? What difference does context make to literature? Get answers to these questions and more with this course introducing poetry analysis and...