Free online poetry course at Iowa.

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The Course

How Writers Write Poetry, a six-week course beginning on June 28, 2014, is an interactive study of the practice of writing poetry. The course presents a curated collection of short, intimate talks on craft by two dozen acclaimed poets writing in English. Craft topics include sketching techniques, appropriation, meter, constraints, sound, mindfulness, and pleasure. The talks are designed for beginning poets just starting to put words on a page as well as for advanced poets looking for new entry points, thoughts about process, or teaching tips. The course will be taught by University of Iowa International Writing Program Director and poet/translator Christopher Merrill as well as Black Rainbow Editions Editor and poet Mary Hickman. Contributing poets’ video talks will be contextualized through online discussion and writing assignments. The Poetry Teaching Assistants (all Iowa Writers’ Workshop students or graduates with university level experience teaching creative writing) will join Mary Hickman in offering online poetry workshops to participants. (Please note: we can’t workshop everyone, but we will workshop a representative selection of participants’ work every week.) Poets who have contributed video craft talks for the course include former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass, Kwame Dawes, Marvin Bell, Kiki Petrosino, Kate Greenstreet, and many others. How Writers Write Poetry will offer a diversity of answers to the question of how a writer develops and refines the lifelong practice of his or her craft. Enrollment in How Writers Write Poetry is free and unlimited.

Source/go to: How Writers Write Poetry.

Excellent advice on managing your first year at university.

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The change from school to university can be quite a shock as you move from a highly structured and directed environment to one in which you are expected to organise your own studies and rely on your own thinking to succeed.

Here is an excellent two-part video by Dr Owen Clayton on what to expect in your first year at university and how to manage:

Managing your expectations: some differences between further and higher education.

This, and other useful information, can be found at The English Faculty site.

Poetry reading by Andrew Mitchell, Wednesday 12, 12.15.

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There will be a poetry reading taking place on Wednesday 12 February, 12.15-1pm in MB3202, by Andrew Mitchell.

Andrew will be reading from his recent work ‘Darwin: A Voyage of Ideas’ which explores the life of Charles Darwin. This may be of particular interest to those studying Edwardian Literature, Creative Writing, and MA in English Studies (Life Writing).

For more details on Andrew’s work, please see http://www.wordworthy.com/

All welcome.

New app to celebrate centenary of Joyce’s Dubliners.

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One hundred years after James Joyce’s “The Dead” was first published, a new iPad app relating to it has been launched.

The closing story of “Dubliners” is regarded by many as the greatest short story of the 20th century.

The new app includes the full story read by actor Barry McGovern, plus period images and podcast commentaries.

Read on at RTE.

Free poetry app.

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With the Poetry Foundation’s POETRY mobile app, you can now take hundreds of poems by classic and contemporary poets with you wherever you go.

GET IT NOW, FOR FREE!

From William Shakespeare to César Vallejo to Heather McHugh, the Poetry Foundation’s app turns your phone into a mobile poetry library:

  • Search for old favorites with memorable lines.

  • Give your phone a shake to discover new poems to fit any mood.

  • Save your favorite poems to read and share later—through Facebook, Twitter, or e-mail.

  • Read poems by T. S. Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Lucille Clifton, Emily Dickinson, and many others.

Find out more at The Poetry Foundation.

Talking to tomorrow’s writers at Priory Academy.

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I recently spent an amazing two hours with some sixth-formers at the Priory Academy (LSST) in Lincoln. They’ve just embarked on the first year of their A-Level in Creative Writing.

While I was there I talked to them about the creative writing options available on the English degree at the University, told them a bit about my own career as a poet, read some of my poems and answered some very probing questions. Then I set them to work writing something of their own.

The results were very impressive – great ideas, real creativity and bags of enthusiasm. Not bad considering I gave them less than half an hour to do it in!

Many thanks to Sarah Oliver for organising the session (and to the other members of staff who came along). And special thanks to the writers themselves.

Free membership of Poetry Book Society for students.

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The PBS has launched a free student membership, which is open to all UK higher education students, who can enrol by emailing or sending their proof of student identity to us.

Students can join online and contact will be via email. Once they have enrolled and logged in, student members will be able to view the online version of the Bulletin, our quarterly review of the best new poetry, in the restricted members’ area. They can also order books and receive their 25% members’ discount.

Read more at PBS.

They’re also running a poetry competition for students.

The Black Path free literary event, Wed 23 October.

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Don’t forget that there will be a free reading of work from The Black Path by last year’s students on the MA Creative Writing course.

The reading will take place in MC0025, 12.00 – 1.00, Wednesday 23 October (2013). Work will include poems, flash fiction and extracts from longer pieces.

Everyone welcome.