Amy Pickworth
A writer and editor for more than 30 years, Amy Pickworth has twice served as a Peter Taylor Teaching Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and in 2018 was awarded the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts poetry fellowship. Her poems and critical writing have been published in Diode, Dusie, Forklift Ohio, Ink Node, The Journal (Ohio State), Love’s Executive Order, New Ohio Review, Smartish Pace, Two Serious Ladies and other journals. Her book Bigfoot for Women (Orange Monkey, introduction by Matt Hart, designed by Lucinda Hitchcock) was released in 2014. She works as the editor at the RISD Museum.
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
LAS E411-01
BEGINNING POETRY WRITING WORKSHOP
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The Beginning Poetry Workshop is an elective course introducing students to the art of poetry writing. The course sequentially addresses major commitments of poetry including form/content, sound, line, voice, image, language(s), tradition/convention, experiment, audience, revision, performance, collection, publication, and distribution. Workshop is the heart of the course, animating the practice, discourse, critique, audience, community, and mentorship vital to poets. Every class will also include close reading, discussion of assigned texts, and writing. We will attend public readings, curate and participate in community readings, and welcome poets to our class, when possible. Work can be developed in a range of styles, traditions, and languages. You will leave this class with a collection of workshopped and revised poems, which you will design, self-publish, and distribute in print and/or digital form.
The Beginning Poetry Workshop is a prerequisite for the LAS-E421 Advanced Poetry Workshop in the Spring.
Open to Sophomore, Junior or Senior Graduate Students.
Elective