This graduate course will have an emphasis on revision and on workshop of students’ writing. Because students arrive in a graduate workshop with a variety of backgrounds, styles, and interests in poetry, we will engage in ongoing discussions about lineage and the different schools of thought in poetry. The course will include some exploration of writing which might defy genre classification. The course will also involve some focus on the theory and practice of translating poetry and on prose written about the art. Students will write one critical essay or review and give a presentation. The essay might respond to selected poems/poets in a “personal” way (as a writer engaged in the art), as in several of the assigned readings. As students write and collect their poems together for the course portfolio, they will be thinking about connective themes, etc. in the development of a body of work: the graduate thesis. Workshops, as well as individual and class assignments, will sometimes focus on this future goal as well. Portfolios of 35 pages, including about ten significantly revised pieces, will be due near the end of the semester.