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Five weeks. Five poems. We'll look at what makes them tick, and write our own versions. Break that writer's block. Let's get started.

Let's crack poems open and see them for their parts. W.D. Snodgrass took 101 acclaimed poems and did just that: he re-wrote them into what he called De/Compositions--or, good poems gone wrong. Snodgrass recast each poem, line-by-line, until the poem diverged into another beast entirely. His versions document how artistic choices accumulate to a transcendent final product. We'll take a similar tack. Each week, you'll tackle a poem, render your own version, and share. Our versions will question each choice the poet made, at the same time we’ll direct energies into making the poems "ours." 

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  • Runs July 19, 2011 to Sept. 9, 2011
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  • Start of Course: Rules of Thumb
  • Week 2: Introductions
  • Week 3: Abstract versus Concrete
  • Week 4: Intentions
  • Week 5: Voice and Tone
  • Week 6: The Mark--Climax and Resolution

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  • Poetry Foundation
  • Academy of American Poets
  • Anti
  • Granta
  • From the Fishouse
  • Ink Node
  • Poetry Stock
  • Thethe Poetry
    Carol Peters
    Carol Peters at Breaking the Rules: a Poetry Workshop
    posted comment at Week 3: Abstract versus Concrete.
    07 Sep 2011 via courses.p2pu.org
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  • Vanessa Gennarelli   Sept. 7, 2011, 7:47 a.m.

    Carol!  Who N.American-centric of me--deepest apologies. How I enjoyed your poem. Best, Vanessa


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