Booking information

Duration: five fortnightly sessions

Type: Interactive Online Course
Level: Open to all
Location: Poetry School Online

Details

Start date: Tuesday 3rd Apr 2012

Session times: Tuesdays, fortnightly, 7-9pm (GMT)

Cost:

Full cost:£69.00
60+:£55.00
Concs:£42.00

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The Public and the Personal: Writing the New Political Poem

When poets look at the bigness and the smallness, the chaos and the clarity of today’s world, focusing on the interior experiences of an individual speaker can seem too limited. Contemporary American poets have turned toward political subjects, from terrorism to economic collapse to class tensions, as a way of enlarging their vision and defining what it means to live in their country at this time in history. In this course, we’ll take a look at some recent poems that approach the political and the national in a variety of ways. Assignments will encourage you to open your poems to the interconnectedness of the public and the personal.

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Kathleen Ossip

Kathleen Ossip is the author of two books of poems, The Search Engine and The Cold War, and one chapbook, Cinephrastics. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry, Paris Review, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, the Washington Post, Fence, The Believer, and Poetry Review (London). She teaches at The New School in New York, where she was a founding editor of LIT, and she's the poetry editor of Women's Studies Quarterly. She has received a fellowship in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, as well as grants from Bread Loaf, the Ragdale Foundation, and Yaddo.m