Poetry Foundations

Do you love poems but still find them a mystery? Do you write poems but maybe feel like you’re missing some of the foundations of poetry? As you build your literary house, this class is designed to give some foundations and building blocks of poetry to make your house as stable as it can be. Poetry should be fun and hard, enjoyable and sad, cathartic and didactic: We will look at some of the basics of craft through reading, writing, practice and play.

All participants receive a copy of the poetry collection by Daniel Khalastchi.

Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem Fellow and has been awarded scholarships from the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. His work has been previously published in or forthcoming from The Academy of American Poets, Poetry Magazine, Jubilat, Vinyl, Bat City Review, The Volta, PANK, MAKE Magazine among others. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, he is as a co-host of the Sunday Reading Series with Simone Muench and is the Creative Writing Department Head at The Chicago High School for the Arts.

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