Craft of Poetry
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"Craft of Poetry" is a Fall 2001 course at the University of Northern Iowa focusing on the study of writing poems in rhyme, meter, and inherited forms.

Instructor: Vince Gotera

Note: This course will be given again in Fall 2003. The web site will undergo substantial changes during the summer months before that semester. Keep coming back and see what's up ... or going up, that is.

The write-ups on this Web site were created in Fall 1999 by Vince Gotera and Damon McLaughlin, a graduate student in creative writing at UNI.

Damon's descriptions focus on the seven types of poetry studied in this class, while Vince's treatments outline the seven poetic elements taken up throughout the semester.

Since Damon has graduated and moved on to other pursuits and successes, he no longer teaches this class with Vince, but the website has been left as is, with Damon's work unchanged, because it's valuable to have a variety of different viewpoints on these topics.

Types

Elements