1. This group would be mainly for poets (and poetry lovers) with little formal education in poetry. As for example, yours truly.
2. Because poetry is like chess in that a person can become endlessly more proficient at it (because of its ancient lineage and because bright people have been studying it and writing and teaching about it for nearly that whole time), there is a God-awful lot to learn. Thus the world of poets can be divided into two groups: those with a formal university education specializing to some degree in poetry, and those without one.
3. The group's professors would be the group members themselves. Each would pick a topic from the world of poetics, research it, and present it, discuss it, show examples of it in poems, and generally get the group thinking about how, why, and when to apply it, and what happens if it's not applied, and so on. In other words, by the end of each session, everyone should have a new tool at their disposal to help them enrich their poetry. (And to help them read others' poetry.)
4. Topics would include especially the aspects of poetics most commonly employed in contemporary poetry, but not limited to them. Some examples: the major aspects of poetry, including lines, syntax, diction, trope, rhetoric, rhythm, meter, stanza and then some of the zillion sub-categories like enjambment, stress, scansion, allusion, imagism, metaphor, free verse, feeling, metonymy, allusion, abstraction, how to read a poem, etc etc.
If there's enough interest, we'll definitely start this thing.
Express yourself here, but especially send me an email so I can put you on the invite list: burfield@live.com
Thanks, Stan Burfield
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Cambridge N Calvin Keenan You are a brilliant man Stan 💚 I like this idea
Unlike · Reply · 1 · 20 September at 14:38
Christina Wagner i am interested!
Like · Reply · 20 September at 14:39
Stan Burfield YEAH! We've already got a group, then!
Like · Reply · 1 · 20 September at 14:40 · Edited
Stan Burfield Just send me an email Christina, and I'll collect all the names so I can notify everyone.
Like · Reply · 2 · 20 September at 14:41
Donna Allard to structured for me lol
Like · Reply · 20 September at 14:53
Donald Brackett Go for it Stan. As long as it includes Salvatore Quasimodo, I'm in.
Like · Reply · 20 September at 14:58
Stan Burfield I wish. In both cases.
Like · Reply · 20 September at 15:04
Tina Pickard Stan, I think this is a good idea. I would be interested.
Like · Reply · 20 September at 15:51
Stan Burfield Great. You're on the list then.
Like · Reply · 1 · 20 September at 17:48
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Sheila Deane Okay I sort of like this idea. Could I join?
Like · Reply · 20 September at 21:34
Stan Burfield Of course. Just send me your email address so I can put you on the invitation list.Cambridge N Calvin Keenan You are a brilliant man Stan 💚 I like this idea
Unlike · Reply · 1 · 20 September at 14:38
Christina Wagner i am interested!
Like · Reply · 20 September at 14:39
Stan Burfield YEAH! We've already got a group, then!
Like · Reply · 1 · 20 September at 14:40 · Edited
Stan Burfield Just send me an email Christina, and I'll collect all the names so I can notify everyone.
Like · Reply · 2 · 20 September at 14:41