This page will serve as a kind of “Table of Contents” for students taking creative writing classes I teach. It is divided into two general areas: poetry and prose. Within those general areas, I have listed topics that are linked to mini-essay-like posts. I have them arranged, more or less, as I will cover them in class.
Poetry
The Poetry Gym and Poetry Assignments
In the Beginning Is the Image and Poems Should Be Seen and Heard
Word Values and Types of Diction
Metaphorical Thought and Metaphorical Thought, Part II
Rhymes and Rhythms and Meter, Feet, and Line
Ted Hughes, Alliteration, and Old English
Rhyme and Rhyme, Quaint and Contemporary
Poems and Song Lyrics and Following the Rules
You and the House of Poetry and The Poetry Mind Map
The Poet’s Bookcase and Tension Points for Poets and Other Writers
Revising a Poem
Prose
Syllabus Schedule
Prose Assignments
Telling Stories and the Truth of Fiction The Experience of Fiction
Theme in Fiction and Memoir Plot