MasterClass - Billy Collins Teaches Reading and Writing Poetry

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MasterClass - Billy Collins Teaches Reading and Writing Poetry
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Known for his wit, humor, and profound insight, Billy Collins is one of the best-selling and most beloved contemporary poets in the United States. He regularly sells out poetry readings, frequently charms listeners on NPR's A Prairie Home Companion, and his work has appeared in anthologies, textbooks, and periodicals around the world.

Called "America's Favorite Poet" by the Wall Street Journal, Billy served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate and is also a former New York State Poet Laureate. He's been honored with the Mark Twain Prize for Humor in Poetry and a number of prestigious fellowships. He's taught at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence, and Lehman College, and he's also a distinguished professor at the City University of New York. Now he's teaching his first-ever MasterClass.

In his MasterClass on Reading and Writing Poetry, Billy teaches you the building blocks of poems and their unique power to connect reader and writer. From subject and form to rhyme and meter, learn to appreciate the pleasures of a well-turned poem. Discover Billy's philosophy on the craft of poetry and learn how he creates a poet's persona, incorporates humor, and lets imagination lead the way. By breaking down his own approach to composing poetry and enjoying the work of others, Billy invites students to explore the gifts poetry has to offer.

In this online poetry class, you'll learn about:

* Using humor as a serious strategy
* The fundamental elements of poetry
* Billy's writing process
* Turning a poem
* Exploring subjects
* Rhyme and meter
* Sound pleasures
* Finding your voice
* Using form to engage readers
* The visual distinctions of poetry

        01. Introduction: The Pleasure Poetry Gives Us
Meet your new instructor: Billy Collins, one of the most popular and prolific poets of our time. In your first lesson, Billy introduces the many pleasures of poetry and illuminates how poetry connects you to the history of the human heart.

02. Working With Form
Billy teaches you how to use form to win the love of your readers, an audience of strangers.

03. Discovering the Subject
In poetry, you can do anything and go anywhere. Learn how to embrace the freedom of poetry to embark on explorations of subject, progression, and the balance of clarity and mystery.

04. Writing the Poem
Billy teaches practical exercises that will galvanize your writing process.

05. Writing Process
Billy shares his personal notebooks and gives rare insight into the process of writing his poem "Grand Central."

06. Reading: Connecting With Poetry
A poem is not a cookbook. Learn how embracing nuance and ambiguity can be your greatest ally when reading poetry.

07. Discussion With Marie Howe: Emily Dickinson
Billy invites acclaimed poet and friend Marie Howe to read and discuss Emily Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain." Learn how Dickinson's creative use of capitalization builds an entire world out of a state of mind.

08. Discussion With Marie Howe: William Shakespeare
Billy and Marie discuss how the speaker in William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73" uses metaphor to bid a final farewell to his beloved.

09. Sound Pleasures
Learn the tools beyond rhyme and meter that Billy utilizes to achieve a musical, toe-tapping kind of joy in his poetry.

10. Playing a Visible Game
Billy is a self-proclaimed "terrible rhymer." Learn one of his techniques for capturing a reader's attention without relying on rhymed or metered poetry.

11. Turning a Poem
Billy teaches you how to harness the imaginative flexibility of a poem, turning it in new directions to be playful with your reader.

12. Discussion With Marie Howe: "What the Living Do"
Learn how what began as a letter to her brother became one of Marie's most acclaimed poems with "What the Living Do."

13. Discussion With Marie Howe: "The Death of the Hat"
Billy and Marie unpack how Billy's poem "The Death of the Hat" moves from being a poem about a hat to an elegy for his father.

14. Finding Your Voice: Influences
Your voice lies on the shelves of the library and the bookstore. Learn how reading the work of other poets will help develop your unique persona.

15. Finding Your Voice: Creating a Persona
Learn how to develop a distinctive persona for yourself, solving most issues around writing poetry.

16. Humor as a Serious Strategy
Billy shares how humor is an essential part of his persona and teaches you how to use humor in your poetry for serious reasons.

17. Student Discussion: "My (Muslim)                                                                                                                                                                                                Father Seizes the Thing on My Nightstand" by Sarah Iqbal
Learn how spacing and word repetition create tone in student Sarah Iqbal's poem "My (Muslim) Father Seizes the Thing on My Nightstand."

18. Student Discussion: "The Crash" by Paul Epland
Billy and student Paul Epland discuss point of view in "The Crash." Learn how Billy's suggestion to add three words helps with the turn in the poem.

19. Discussion With Marie Howe: Writing Poetry
According to Marie, "so much of writing is getting beyond the will." Billy and Marie share practical exercises they use to get out of their heads and into their writing.

20. A Poet's Journey
Billy invites you to join the club of poets who have been writing since the beginning of time.   
         

               

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