This four-week course will be an experiment in resourcefulness: We?ll collect some of the most prevalent criticisms members of the class have received of their poems over the years, and attempt to turn them into generative fodder for new poems. The two main approaches we will take are: reading and discussing published poems that seem to follow or defy the piece of advice or criticism, to good effect in either case; and doing exercises and assignments that hone in on particulars of craft suggested by the criticism/advice.