Week 1
Jan. 8

Post to Discussion, "Figurative Language"

Post by Monday, Jan. 15, 8 a.m.

Week 2
Jan. 15

Presentation, "Poetic Form"
Hass, "Listening and Making"
Boland, "Poetic Form: A Personal Encounter"
poems

Post to Discussion, "Poetic Form"

Post by Monday, Jan. 22, 8 a.m.

Presentation, "Meter"
Strand/Boland, "Meter at a Glance"
Hass, "Creeley: His Metric"
Pinsky, "Accent and Duration" and "Technical Terms and Vocal Realities" poems

Post to Discussion, "Meter"

Write a dozen lines using some consistent metrical form—accentual, syllabic, or accentual syllabic. Post your lines; respond to the lines those in your group have posted

Post by Monday, Jan. 29, 8 a.m.

Post to Discussion, "The Image/Haiku, Tanka, Haibun"

Write a linked series of haiku or tanka, or a haibun. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

Post by Monday, Feb. 5, 8 a.m.

Post to Discussion, "The Elegy"

Write an elegy. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

Post by Monday, Feb. 12, 8 a.m.

Presentation, "Aubade & Pastoral"
Strand/Boland, "The Pastoral"
Poems

Post to Discussion, "Aubade & Pastoral"

Write an aubade or a pastoral. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

E-mail instructor with questions for conference, to focus on your work in progress.

Post by Monday, Feb. 19, 8 a.m.

Presentation, "The Ode"
Strand/Boland, "The Ode"
Poems

Post to Discussion, "The Ode"

Write an ode. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

Draft of essay.

Post by Monday, Feb. 26, 8 a.m.

Presentation, "Couplets"
Strand/Boland, "The Heroic Couplet" and "Blank Verse"
Hass, "Syntax and Line" and "Like and Unlike Sounds"

Post to Discussion, "Couplets"

Write a series of couplets (rhymed or unrhymed), or a passage of blank verse. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

Post by Monday, March 5, 8 a.m.

Post to Discussion, "Tercets, Terza Rima & Villanelles"

Write a villanelle or a poem in tercets or terza rima. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

Post by Sunday, March 11, midnight

Presentation, "Quatrains & Ballads"
Strand/Boland, "The Ballad" and "The Stanza"
poems

Post to Discussion, "Quatrains & Ballads"

Write a poem in some stanzaic form (rhymed or unrhymed). Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

Post by Monday, March 26, 8 a.m.

Presentation, "Open Forms"
Strand/Boland, "Open Forms"
Pinsky, "Blank Verse and Free Verse"
Poems

Post to Discussion, "Open Forms"

Write an open form poem. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

Post by Monday, April 2, 8 a.m.

Presentations, "Prose Poems" and "Portfolios/Chapbooks"
poems

Post to Discussion, "Prose Poems"

Write a prose poem. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

E-mail instructor with questions for a second conference, to focus on your final portfolio/chapbook.

Post by Monday, April 9, 8 a.m.

Post to Discussion, "Ghazals & Pantoums"

Write a ghazal or a pantoum. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

Post by Monday, April16, 8 a.m.

Post to Discussion, "Sestinas"

Write a sestina. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

Post by Monday, April 23, 8 a.m.

Post to Discussion, "Sonnets"

Write a sonnet. Post your poem; respond to the poems those in your group have posted.

Post by Sunday, April 29, midnight.