Summer Seminars: $199
Registration is now open for our Summer Seminars. The seminars are 4-week online courses designed to give students the opportunity to work with our faculty in a shortened format that costs less and requires less of a time commitment than a full 8-week course. Courses offered include: Poetry Bootcamp, Remix the Poem, Strategizing Poetics, Poetics Level 1, Publishing Bootcamp, and Dream Journaling.
Classes start July 19th, so register soon.
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Remix the Poem
This course is designed to encourage risk-taking and experimentation. Rather than looking closely at formal poetic conventions, students will explore writing that transgresses those boundaries and defies classifications using an array of techniques, including the cut-up method of William Burroughs, appropriative collage, erasure, and chance operations.
Summer Seminar with Francesco Levato
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Dream Journaling and Poetry
What Samuel Taylor Coleridge called the “ego nocturnos” or the night-self is a prime source of poetry—if you know how to map it. The importance of paying attention to your own dream life will be emphasized and discussed during this salon, and concrete methods for incorporating some of the imagery from dreams into poetry will be the focus...
Summer Seminar with Lina ramona Vitkauskas
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Strategizing Poetics
OULIPO, noulipo, Conceptual, flarf, post-flarf: the transformation of poetry and prose through deploying strategies of method, structure, content, intention and chance/change is a given now. In utilizing strategy in our own work, don’t we wonder how great a part control (or the absence of it) should play? How far back should writers stand from their works, making way for the (perhaps) foreign agent of “strategy”? What benefits accrue to the work?...
Summer Seminar with Sharon Mesmer
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Publishing Bootcamp
Now that you’ve written hundreds of poems you’d like to see them in print or online. The instructor will share his insight gained after 12+ years of editing a respected online magazine, and publishing his own poetry in numerous magazines and in book form. Are contests really worth it? Should you have to help a publisher pay for print costs? What are some of the leading poetry publications and how should you follow up with them? Students will receive sound instructor advice and critique on specific methods for publishing.
Summer Seminar with Larry Sawyer
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Poetry Bootcamp
In this writing intensive course students will craft original poems using concepts and techniques like surrealist operations, investigative poetics, Japanese poetic diary practice, mining secondary source texts, found language, use of paratextual elements like footnotes, marginalia, and indexing, list poems...
Summer Seminar with Francesco Levato
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Poetics Level 1
This is a shortened, 4-week, version of our regular Poetics Level 1 course reformatted for our Summer Seminars. Blending lecture, written exercises, and in-class feedback this course is designed to help you meld the inspiration behind a poem with the types of effective techniques that will really bring it across to the reader.
Summer Seminar with Larry Sawyer
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Master Class: Charles Bernstein
Study with poet Charles Bernstein in a Master Class at the Chicago School of Poetics. This one-day online class offers an intimate environment within which to work with one of the key figures of contemporary poetry.
Date: October 19th, 2013
Time: 1-4 p.m. Central Time
Register early, only 10 seats available.
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Eileen Myles
Time to pull down the time space limitations of what and where poetry exchange is occuring in our broken and beautiful 21st C. Chicago School of Poetics is the only institution I know that's experimenting so widely and freely with making the occasion of writing and community and pedagogy be at all our fingertips and in our eyes. I myself was both elated and terrified to teach a master class through CSOP because I'd previously counted on the presence of bodies as my teaching familiar. Yet I'm turned around now after conducting my master class because my students were funny and dazzling and a...
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This is what a school truly should be…
From the perspective of a poet-teacher, the Chicago School of Poetics offers a tremendous opportunity to interact closely with a group of students specifically interested in your work – from anywhere in the world. My students stretched time zones, hemispheres, even the International Date Line. They were knowledgeable and engaged.
This is what a school truly should be – think of Black Mountain College – beyond all the boundaries & borders.
—Ron Silliman
