workshop

Didactic Sonnet

by Joe Weil Academia

Didactic Sonnet

By Joe Weil

If Plato came back today and saw the workshop, craft obsessed nature of poetics, he’d give his approval, but not for reasons poets might like: Plato would approve because the stupidity of inspiration has been removed from the writing of poems.

Aug
02
2011
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If Plato came back today and saw the workshop, craft obsessed nature of poetics, he’d give his approval, but not for reasons poets might like: Plato would approve because the stupidity of inspiration has been removed from the writing of poems.

On My Pedagogical Approach (or something of the sort)

by Joe Weil Academia

On My Pedagogical Approach (or something of the sort)

By Joe Weil

Digress, digress, follow the nose of your longing.

May
18
2011
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Digress, digress, follow the nose of your longing.

On Mimesis

by Emily Vogel Poetry and Poetics

On Mimesis

By Emily Vogel

Aristotle meant that poetry was mimetic of all of things, independent of another poet’s unique perspective. It is not necessary that poets imitate other poets, but that they imitate life.

Mar
30
2011
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Aristotle meant that poetry was mimetic of all of things, independent of another poet’s unique perspective. It is not necessary that poets imitate other poets, but that they imitate life.

How to Teach Writing to Beginners (Towards a Different Kind of Workshop, Part IV)

by Joe Weil Poetry and Poetics

How to Teach Writing to Beginners (Towards a Different Kind of Workshop, Part IV)

By Joe Weil

Russian novelists exhausted every eye color in the 19th century. Pop song writers are the only people who can make a big deal out of eyes anymore.

Nov
05
2010
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Russian novelists exhausted every eye color in the 19th century. Pop song writers are the only people who can make a big deal out of eyes anymore.

Jazz, Workshop, Fake books, & Misremembering

by Joe Weil Music

Jazz, Workshop, Fake books, & Misremembering

By Joe Weil

By the shores of gitchee goomy, / Stood the noble Hiawatha / quoting from the other shore: / Only this and nothing more.

Nov
02
2010
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By the shores of gitchee goomy, / Stood the noble Hiawatha / quoting from the other shore: / Only this and nothing more.

How to Edit Poems in a Workshop (Towards a Different Kind of Workshop, Part III)

by Joe Weil Poetry and Poetics

How to Edit Poems in a Workshop (Towards a Different Kind of Workshop, Part III)

By Joe Weil

Break up into groups, something they love to do now-a-days: Line/space coach, image/word choice coach, rhythm/syntax coach, and meaning/subtext coach.

Oct
30
2010
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Break up into groups, something they love to do now-a-days: Line/space coach, image/word choice coach, rhythm/syntax coach, and meaning/subtext coach.

Towards a Different Kind of Workshop

by Joe Weil Academia

Towards a Different Kind of Workshop

By Joe Weil

I am not the expert teacher here, but the experienced learner, the one who has a love for poetry and gets excited by weird things like grammatical ambiguity, or how the poet used the weather to suggest a mood.

Sep
30
2010
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I am not the expert teacher here, but the experienced learner, the one who has a love for poetry and gets excited by weird things like grammatical ambiguity, or how the poet used the weather to suggest a mood.