2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

ENGL 340 Advanced Creative Writing - Poetry

Study and practice of the diverse forms and patterns English poetry employs, from Anglo-Saxon and ballad to concrete and spatial, with a portfolio of poems in a dozen forms due at semester's end. Other emphases may include free-form poetry or the forms found in foreign languages. May be repeated for credit with permission of the instructor.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGL 102 or permission of instructor

Student Learning Outcome

  1. The goal of the course is to work to fill a form with words that sing. When you enter your essence, the source of inner and outer self, you're in a creative state. A sure way to locate that essence is to write poetry which, as a poet has said "expresses with concision the spirit." Voice is your fingerprint.