Reading as Apprenticeship

Learn about poetry from the poem, writes poet Ed Hirsch. This workshop offers an oasis of sustained attentiveness to the intricacies of the poem, a "made thing", as each week we read, hear, and collectively uncover and reflect upon a varied selection of poems, ranging from those by Dickinson and Hopkins, to Merwin, Rukeyser, Wilner, and Levis. Essays in poetics will also be added to the mix. This is not a writing workshop per se, though the readings and conversations are guaranteed to widen the scope of your own writing.