This syllabus was submitted to the Office of Academic affairs by the course instructor.Students will be reading about poetry, reading poems and working on their own poetry. The course will have 2 goals. The first goal will be to help prepare students to write better poems, to challenge themselves, and to set up a basic writing schedule for producing work for their portfolios. I hope Rachel Simon’s book will assist you in this endeavor, as well as the book of writing exercises by Behn and Twitchell. The second goal will be no less important. It will be to educate students about traditional ways of writing poetry, by reading Alfred Corn’s manual of prosody, The Poem’s Heartbeat, by reading selected poems in our Norton anthology, and by reading essays in the coursepack.