Poetry For Profit and Play
This course is primarily designed to help the inexperienced poet write for profit or pleasure. Students learn basic forms of poetry such as: metrical, sonnet, rhyme, haiku and free verse. They are then given exercises designed to help them learn the various forms.

Poetry Writing Basics
In this class, we will be looking at the basic tools of poetry, such as imagery, metaphor, concrete language, rhythm, and description, as well as different schools of contemporary poetry. We will be using assignment prompts and model poems to help you to write your own poetry and come up with ideas for future work.

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Excellence in poetry is elusive, but a quest worth pursuing. In our courses, you will learn to manipulate sound, imagery, structure, meter, line, words, and theme into well-crafted poems and you will improve your precision by experimenting with various time-honored forms. You will also learn how and where to market your work.

Poetry Writing For Dreamers and Non-Dreamers
This course focuses on the art of poetry on two levels, one as a craft and one as a concept. Basic structure and form are taught along with the encouragement to use only those formats supporting the poet's vision and intent. Students will work on a one-to-one mentoring basis with the instructor, Carol Givner. Each student will write three poems each week in various rhyme patterns and rhythms, including free verse. At the end of the course, the Ms. Givner will select the finest work of each poet and invite those artists to publish their work in a chapbook anthology released by Studio E with an ISBN.

Poetry 101: The Way We Word
Through a series of six lessons, we will hit upon the essential tools for creating a poem: imagery, metaphor, sound, rhythm, rhyme, and form. Each lesson expands upon the previous lesson to show the interconnectivity of these essential tools, but each one also looks at the tool in and of itself. In the process, we will look at how these tools are used in various poems, by means of definitions, explanations, and examples. The focus is not on poetic terms, but on processes; while designed for the beginning poet, the course would also be a good brush-up for intermediate and even advanced poets.

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