Classes
Prose Poetry – 2012
“… the prose poem plants one foot in prose, the other in poetry, both heels resting precariously on banana peels.”
- Peter Johnson
Oxymoronic in name…and based on contradiction…its unity controlled by its brevity…torqued by the force of ellipsis…often funny….often not…often surrealistic…often…
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Join Ken Rodgers in a five-week set of lectures probing the quixotic form we know as prose poetry.
Beginning January 21, 2012, with subsequent lectures on Jan 28, Feb 11, 18 and 25.
• We will study theory.
• We will read (among others), admire and ponder prose poems by Charles Baudelaire, Gertrude Stein, James Wright, Nin Andrews, Robert Bly, Mark Strand, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Charles Simic.
• And we will write, write, write.
Cost: $60.00
Course Structure -
Weekly e-mails will be posted to you on Saturdays with a lecture concerning prose poetry, including a discussion of basic definitions and concepts regarding this aspect of writing.
Each online lecture will include examples of writing pertinent to the subject. Quite often, links to associated or applicable websites will be included for your reference.
Instructor Ken Rodgers will be available via e-mail to answer questions and concerns you might have for the duration of the course. Questions are always encouraged.
Once the class is underway, and prior to each Saturday posting, student will compose and e-mail to Ken a poem for his critique and comment. He will return the critiques to the student, at the latest, by the Saturday following.
Please confirm your class registration to: kennetherodgers@msn.com or via telephone to 208-340-8889.
Please mail check to: Ken Rodgers, PO Box 1224, Eagle, ID 83616
www.kennethrodgers.com
www.bravotheproject.com
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Word Etchings – Redux
More on the Lyric Essay as Art
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A Five Week On-Line Writing Series
With Ken Rodgers, MFA
January 28, February 11, 18, 25 and March 3, 2012
The new Philosophy calls all in doubt
The Element of fire is quite put out;
The Sun is lost, and th’ earth, and no man’s wit
Can well direct him where to look for it
– John Donne
A five-week set of lectures in which we will continue our look at philosophy and art, and more specifically, the art of writing lyric essays.
We will write, write, write…and while doing so will look at Romanticism (personal understanding as the supreme criterion of truth and how that provides a common ground for nature, God and humanity), Modernism (recognizing a difference between a passive natural world and the productive mind), Formalism (art is art, not a reflection of a society’s ideas), and Structuralism (art does not have an essence, but is defined by its structure and its place in a relevant system; art is a sign, an event with meaning).
Cost: $60.00
Course Structure -
Weekly e-mails will be posted to you on Saturdays with a lecture concerning the topic, including a discussion of basic definitions and concepts regarding this aspect of writing.
Each online lecture will include examples of writing pertinent to the lyric essay. Quite often, links to associated or applicable websites will be included for your reference.
Instructor Ken Rodgers will be available via e-mail to answer questions and concerns you might have for the duration of the course. Questions are always encouraged.
Once the class is underway, and prior to each Saturday posting, student will compose and e-mail to Ken a one-page lyric essay for his critique and comment. He will return the critiques to the student, at the latest, by the Saturday following.
Please confirm your class registration to: kennetherodgers@gmail.com or via telephone to 208-340-8889.
Please mail check to: Ken Rodgers, PO Box 1224, Eagle, ID 83616
www.kennethrodgers.com
www.bravotheproject.com
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