POET 43 W — Poetry Workshop: Locating the Language of Your Life
Quarter: Summer
Instructor(s): Jade Cho
Date(s): Jun 26—Aug 28
Class Recording Available: Yes
Class Meeting Day: Thursdays
Class Meeting Time: 5:30—6:30 pm (PT)
Tuition: $1000
Refund Deadline: Jun 28
Unit(s): 2
Enrollment Limit: 18
Status: Open
Quarter: Summer
Day: Thursdays
Duration: 10 weeks
Time: 5:30—6:30 pm (PT)
Date(s): Jun 26—Aug 28
Unit(s): 2
Tuition: $1000
Refund Deadline: Jun 28
Instructor(s): Jade Cho
Enrollment Limit: 18
Recording Available: Yes
Status: Open
In the words of the poet June Jordan, “Poetry means taking control of the language of your life.” What are the words, stories, and experiences that only you can tell? How can you translate these materials into compelling poems? In this course, we will study contemporary poets who draw on experiences and details from everyday life to distill revelations about selfhood, death, love, family, and the world around us. Every week, we will read and discuss selections from celebrated poets such as Lucille Clifton, Martín Espada, Louise Glück, and Ross Gay, focusing on how they use image, lineation, sound, and form to unearth truths about their subject matter. You will experiment with these craft tools through weekly writing exercises and share your poems for written feedback from both the instructor and your peers. Optional live Zoom sessions will offer a space to write with others, share new work, and delve deeper into readings. Whether you are a new or seasoned poet, you will come away with a group of new poems, an enhanced understanding of basic elements of poetry, innovative approaches for revising your work and providing feedback to others, and the tools and habits to keep writing beyond the course.
JADE CHO
Author
Jade Cho was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford and is the author of In the Tongue of Ghosts. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Apogee, and Waxwing and on the Academy of American Poets website. She received a BA in ethnic studies from UC Berkeley, where she studied and taught in Poetry for the People, and an MFA in creative writing from Arizona State, where she served as a June Jordan Teaching Fellow. She has taught academic and creative writing in university, K-12, and community settings for over a decade. Textbooks for this course:
There are no required textbooks; however, some fee-based online readings may be assigned.