Poems, Poets, Poetry

In this discussion-based seminar we will read a wide range of lyric, narrative, and multi-media poems and explore diverse ways of responding to them, from the personal to the political. We will contemplate the resources of language, historical and personal contexts, social movements, and ideological commitments upon which poets depend and draw. We will strive to make poetry accessible, relevant, and enjoyable, and to encourage a sense of poems as companions for life.