The Art of Poetry Free Online Course
Boston University and edX is offering a free, six-week, online poetry course (a MOOC - Massive Open Online Course) taught by Robert Pinsky, Duy Doan, Laura Marris, Calvin Olsen and Tomas Unger.
The course launches March 29, 2016. The class covers a wide range of material, from classics to work by contemporary poets. According to Pinsky, �this course is based on the conviction that the more you know about an art, the more pleasure you will find in it.�
Rather than following particular schools of poetry or trends, the lectures, discussions, and readings of the course focus on elements of the art itself, from poetry�s historical relation to courtship to the techniques of sound in free verse.
From the edX website:
To registe: https://www.edx.org/course/art-poetry-bux-arpo222x-0
The course launches March 29, 2016. The class covers a wide range of material, from classics to work by contemporary poets. According to Pinsky, �this course is based on the conviction that the more you know about an art, the more pleasure you will find in it.�
Rather than following particular schools of poetry or trends, the lectures, discussions, and readings of the course focus on elements of the art itself, from poetry�s historical relation to courtship to the techniques of sound in free verse.
From the edX website:
Poetry lives in any reader, not necessarily in performance by the poet or a trained actor. The pleasure of actually saying a poem, or even saying it in your imagination�your mind�s ear�is essential. That is a central idea of �The Art of Poetry,� well demonstrated by the videos at favoritepoem.org: the photographer saying Sylvia Plath�s �Nick and the Candlestick,� the high school student saying Langston Hughes� �Minstrel Man.� Those readers base what they say about each poem upon their experience of saying it.
The course is demanding, and based on a certain kind of intense reading, requiring prolonged, thorough� in fact, repeated�attention to specific poems.
The focus will be on elements of the art such as poetry�s historical relation to courtship; techniques of sound in free verse; poetry and difficulty; kidding and tribute�with only incidental attention to �schools,� jargons, categories, and coteries.
Learners are encouraged to think truly, carefully and passionately about what the poem says, along with how the poem feels in one�s own, actual or imagined voice. As Robert Pinsky says, in the Preface to Singing School: �this anthology will succeed if it encourages the reader to emulate it by replacing it . . . create your own anthology.� In a comparable way, this course hopes to inspire a lifelong study of poetry.
To registe: https://www.edx.org/course/art-poetry-bux-arpo222x-0