Why just write poems when you can write better ones? This course is built on the notion that the most exciting writing begins after the first draft. It is specifically for folks who believe that writing poems just to express oneself is like using the Internet just for email. After all, poetry can change the way you and your readers think of the world and its inhabitants; it can break new ground for language; turn a blank sheet of paper into a teeming concert of voices and music.
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Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop
California Institute of the Arts
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Introduction and the Poetic Line
Poetry orchestrates its music, arguments, tensions, and environment via arrangements of language into lines and stanzas. This week we’ll address the importance of the line break, perhaps the most conspicuous, signature tool in the poet’s toolkit. Do you break more for sound, for sense, visual effect, shape, a mix of several? We’ll participate in several line break exercises and remix found poems. Also: prepare for your first quiz and a fun first writing prompt.
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8 vidéos (Total 20 min), 5 lectures, 1 quiz
8 vidéos
The Workshop Process3 min
Workshopping in a MOOC, part 11 min
The Starting Line4 min
Rack ‘em Up: Gwendolyn Brooks' We Real Cool1 min
We/Read Close. We/Take note. 4 min
Game Over1 min
Poetry Prompt 1: Line2 min
5 lectures
Syllabus5 min
Workshopping in a MOOC, part 28 min
Academic Integrity2 min
Course Resources3 min
Week 1 Summary8 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
On the Line10 min
1 heure pour terminer
Abstraction and Image
Abstraction doesn’t mean “deep,” and image doesn’t mean “picture.” Images are typically understood as anything you can literally touch/taste/see/hear/smell, and abstractions are those things for which we have symbols (a clock for “time,” a heart for “love”) but no image. Abstractions and images may fill our poems, but how can you tell what’s what, and how can you leverage them to compelling ends? This week we’ll work at finding new symbols to replace clichéd ones for abstractions and we’ll work at crafting images that do more than add furniture to a poem, but create systems of relationships, moods, and even style.
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5 vidéos (Total 14 min), 1 lecture, 1 quiz
5 vidéos
Beauty’s in the Eye of the Bewildered: Harryette Mullen's [if your complexion is a mess.]1 min
The Wonky Chocolate Factory4 min
Read in the Shade2 min
Poetry Prompt 2: Abstraction & Image2 min
1 lecture
Week 2 Summary8 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Abstraction & Image10 min
3 heures pour terminer
Metaphor and Other Formulas of Difference
Most of us think of simile and metaphor, personification and other similar figures of speech as being about similarities between objects, concepts, and entities. But the juice in these formulas comes from how different the two things being compared seem to be. This is why writing: “the shark moved like a fish” is, alone, a lot less interesting than saying “the shark moved like a squad car.” We’ll talk about how playing with difference via juxtaposition can create a range of poetic effects. Then you’ll write a poem built of one robustly developed or several contrasting juxtapositions.
3 heures pour terminer
5 vidéos (Total 18 min), 1 lecture, 2 quiz
5 vidéos
It is What it Isn’t7 min
Home Cooking: Victor Hernández Cruz's Red Beans1 min
Lilies and Lava 4 min
After Dinner Meant1 min
Poetry Prompt 3: Metaphor2 min
1 lecture
Week 3 Summary8 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Metaphor10 min
1 heure pour terminer
Rhyme
This week we’ll explore how rhyme leverages patterns of sameness and how we can estrange similarity for compelling poetic effects. We’ll check out examples of “rhyme”—sonic, visual, conceptual—from outside of poetry too.
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5 vidéos (Total 14 min), 1 lecture, 1 quiz
5 vidéos
There’s No “A” in Showdown: Cathy Park Hong's Ballad in A1 min
Lipo-what?!5 min
What That Was2 min
Poetry Prompt 4: Rhyme1 min
1 lecture
Week 4 Summary8 min
1 exercice pour s'entraîner
Rhyme10 min
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Meilleurs avis pour SHARPENED VISIONS: A POETRY WORKSHOP
par SMFeb 12, 2017
This course truly opened my eyes on the importance of revision, I recommend this course not only for budding poets but even for those who have never attempted poetry. You will learn a great deal.
par ARNov 1, 2015
I have learned so much and I love D's energy and the avid participation of the other students. Will definitely pass on what I've learned. Can't wait for more courses like this in the future! :)
par JKAug 21, 2016
Wonderful, learning about writing poetry here is IT! I will always use this to go forward and once in a while come back to freshen up. Thank you, there's nothing else out there like this class!
par ASAug 14, 2018
This course provides brilliant explanations delivered in an extremely entertaining manner and incredible prompts that make the process of writing poetry extremely amusing. I recommend it 100%.
par LDMar 7, 2019
I appreciate the practicality of assignments and delivery of concepts for writing poetry. I learned some skills and it gave me structure. The conversation between students is less accessible.
par GMJan 12, 2016
I loved it. I truly enjoyed my time through this course. Excellent teacher who knows his stuff. Thank-you for this writing and educational opportunity for me to jump-start my muse again.
par SBOct 7, 2015
I enjoyed the class. The small corny bits in the videos made me feel at home, while the informative parts were very easy for me to understand. I'll likely revisit the class again later.
par MSNov 1, 2019
I loved this course. It has expanded my vision for my own writing. I found it helpful to receive feedback from my peers. I now can go back to previous works and revise with confidence.
par SBJan 8, 2020
Excellent course !! Previously I had never read or appreciated poetry much. This course has been an eye opener. The course is very well structure! And I learnt a lot from my peers too!
par CLAug 8, 2016
Douglas Kearney is the best teacher I ever had. He really knows his stuff. His video lectures are so much fun to watch that I find myself wishing that his course would last forever.
par MAApr 15, 2018
This was a brilliant course. Loved having to write poems for it. Loved the guy taking it. Just had trouble getting in to put assignments in and talk to people. Otherwise I loved it.
par MIMar 18, 2020
Sharpened visions was a wonderful course. Thanks to the mentors who worked behind it. thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. a must do course who wants to be a poet.
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