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BECOMING A POET: 6-week private online tutorial This 6-week private tutorial is an opportunity to gain a sense of yourself as poet. The job is to become clear in your own mind what poetry is and become committed to writing it. In a day and age when poetry is broadly defined, and contending forces claim the title, it is often difficult to know how to think about contemporary poetry or even to recognize what it is. Yet without a point of view on this question (though the point of view can be flexible), it is impossible to have confidence in yourself as a poet or to take your attempts at writing poetry seriously. When you understand the legitimacy of what you are doing (because others are working in the same form, or struggling toward similar goals, or sharing writing values), you gain confidence and courage. You become more expressive. The more confidence you have, the more likely you are to commit to a piece of work and complete it. You post a Guided Write on poetry and a new poem or a revision weekly. Your teacher discusses the poetic issues your Write raises, suggests related readings, and responds in detail to your poems. Please read the General
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