Instructor: Camille Martin
Duration: 21 February – 27 March 2012 (6 weeks) 6-8 PM
Location: Of Swallows, 283 College Street, Upper Floor Seminar Room
“The sonnet . . . is not a form at all but a state of mind.” – William Carlos Williams
Throughout its 800-year history, the sonnet has seen periods of vogue and dormancy, but it just keeps bouncing back, and its contemporary allure to poets...
Instructor: Fred Wah
When: 10 March 2012, 1:30 – 5:00 PM
Location: Of Swallows, 283 College Street, Upper Seminar Room
Would you
Should you
If yr asked
Use up a poem
To do this task?
This is a workshop on the Occasional Poem. Much maligned and frequently scorned by poet laureates, the poetics of the occasional poem invite an intriguing spectrum of considerations. Can a “poem in honour of”...
Instructor: Martha Baillie
Duration: (5 weeks, 10 hours) 18 January – 15 February, Wednesdays 6-8PM
Location: Nalandabodhi Toronto, 174 Spadina Suite 506
“A core sample is a cylindrical section of a (usually) naturally-occuring substance consistent enough to hold a layered structure.”
“Honest speech is a relief not a discovery.” (Louise Glück)
In this course, following from the groundwork...
(Note: The Wednesday evening originally listed is full — second section added!)
Duration: 10 Weeks (30 hours), FEB 9 – APR 12, 6:30-9:30 pm, (Thursday Evenings)
Location: The League of Canadian Poets Offices, 192 Spadina Avenue
Capacity: 6 students
Instructor: Jay MillAr
And you have to go into the serial poem not knowing what the hell you’re doing. That’s the first thing. You have to be...

This is a workshop on the Occasional Poem. Much maligned and frequently scorned by poet laureates, the poetics of the occasional poem invite an intriguing spectrum of considerations. Led by Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate, this workshop asks: Can a “poem in honour of” engage a similar discourse to the poem simply written “For”?
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This six-week Reading/Writing course investigates the enduring appeal of the sexy “little song” not as a form, but as William Carlos Williams suggests, “a state of mind.”
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In this ten week course, explore the Long Poem form as a reader and as a writer.
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In this five-week course, following from the groundwork set in Core Sample 1, we will further explore the novel as core sample. New participants are welcome. Works by such contemporary visual artists as Rachel Whiteread, Flavio Trevisan, Betty Goodwin and others will serve as starting points to discuss possible approaches to writing fiction.