What does it mean to study poetry in Literary Studies at Lang?
Students explore what it means to be a writer and reader of poetry, what it means to be a practicing poet in the world. We encourage students to think about poetry as widely as possible, to consider poetry as expression that addresses concerns from the intimate and personal to the engaged and political, from questions of beauty to questions of social justice.
How do I study poetry in Literary Studies Writing at Lang?
The core of poetry writing at Lang is found in the sequenced seminars: Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced, and Capstone. The poetry writing workshop is the backbone of any of these classes. In them students focus on their own work and the work of fellow students to think about the possibilities for their poetry in terms of craft, of form and content. In addition to the workshop, each seminar has a significant poetry reading component, with texts drawn from a variety of poetic traditions and movements.
How does studying poetry in Literary Studies Writing fit with my other studies at Lang?
Writing and reading poetry means writing and reading the self and selves, the world and worlds. It’s hard to write poetry that doesn’t engage with meaning, whether personal, political, economic, cultural, philosophical, religious, historical, scientific, psychological, human. Whatever else one studies, or has studied, has an essential place in the study of poetry.
Do I have to major in Literary Studies Writing to take poetry writing classes at Lang?
While it would be wonderful (though a little strange) to think of a world where everyone majored in the study of poetry, the program welcomes students who simply want to write and read it. Students majoring in Literary Studies Writing may choose poetry as their primary genre of study or as their secondary genre. Students can also minor in Literary Studies Writing with poetry as their primary genre. Or students can simply take classes, beginning with Introduction and continuing on through.
Talk to other students who have taken poetry classes—see what they have to say. Talk to our faculty—they will have plenty to say. For official information, talk to the Writing Department Chair, Wendy Walters, or Robin Mookerjee, the Departmental Adviser.
October 10, 2019
Ann Snitow May 9, 1943-August 10, 2019 Ann Snitow, a founding faculty member of Lang College and the creator of the Gender Studies Program at the New School, passed away on August 10, 2019. She was a beloved member of the Literary Studies faculty. While indeed her books and essays are crucial texts in feminist studies and in the life of the mind, as Literary Studies colleagues our remembrances here are more personal, testaments not just to her work but to the power of her being.
December 7, 2016
Mark Greif, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, was awarded the Eighteenth Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship for his book, The Age of the Crisis of Man: Thought and Fiction in America, 1933-1973, published by the Princeton University Press in 2015. […]
What does it mean to study poetry in Literary Studies at Lang?
Students explore what it means to be a writer and reader of poetry, what it means to be a practicing poet in the world. We encourage students to think about poetry as widely as possible, to consider poetry as expression that addresses concerns from the intimate and personal to the engaged and political, from questions of beauty to questions of social justice.
How do I study poetry in Literary Studies Writing at Lang?
The core of poetry writing at Lang is found in the sequenced seminars: Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced, and Capstone. The poetry writing workshop is the backbone of any of these classes. In them students focus on their own work and the work of fellow students to think about the possibilities for their poetry in terms of craft, of form and content. In addition to the workshop, each seminar has a significant poetry reading component, with texts drawn from a variety of poetic traditions and movements.
How does studying poetry in Literary Studies Writing fit with my other studies at Lang?
Writing and reading poetry means writing and reading the self and selves, the world and worlds. It’s hard to write poetry that doesn’t engage with meaning, whether personal, political, economic, cultural, philosophical, religious, historical, scientific, psychological, human. Whatever else one studies, or has studied, has an essential place in the study of poetry.
Do I have to major in Literary Studies Writing to take poetry writing classes at Lang?
While it would be wonderful (though a little strange) to think of a world where everyone majored in the study of poetry, the program welcomes students who simply want to write and read it. Students majoring in Literary Studies Writing may choose poetry as their primary genre of study or as their secondary genre. Students can also minor in Literary Studies Writing with poetry as their primary genre. Or students can simply take classes, beginning with Introduction and continuing on through.
Talk to other students who have taken poetry classes—see what they have to say. Talk to our faculty—they will have plenty to say. For official information, talk to the Writing Department Chair, Wendy Walters, or Robin Mookerjee, the Departmental Adviser.
