The writing and reading of poetry has always been a vital practice for those interested in leadership, innovation, social activism, and psychological awareness.  This workshop will continue the exploration of your imagination through engaging exercises and readings designed to stimulate both the energy and precision of your thinking—no matter what field you are in, it will grow your gift for understanding your life and times creatively and rigorously.  In an age of sensory overload, poetry provides a powerful concentration.  This is not a lecture class.  It offers practical training, and it does so while showing you how poets have written about the widest possible range of human experience—from love to business to medicine to food to politics to dreams to sports and more.  Writing poetry, as Anna Marie Hong says, is a way for us “to connect our lives with the experiences of others, and to change events.”  This workshop will give you the skills to make it happen.  Prereq: ENGL 501, ENGL 526, or ENGL 527 or permission of the instructor.  Course may be repeated for a maximum of 8 credits.