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est. 1965


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- Director -
Luke Whisnant

- Associate Director -
Leanne E. Smith

The Forum is conducted in a workshop style,
but meetings are open to listeners as well.
Writers who plan to attend should
bring 8 to 10 copies of each poem
they wish to have discussed.

Mondays @ 7pm
Willis Building
- Fall 2008 -
September 15
October 6 & 20
November 3 & 17
December 1

- Spring 2009 -

TBA

End-of-Semester Readings
TBA

Good poetry has discernible qualities.
It makes maximum use of figurative language,
and what is said emerges from the drama of the imagery.
What it says has a greater impact because it emerges subtly,
rather than in the form of direct statements. - Peter Makuck

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The figure
a poem makes...
It begins in delight
and ends in wisdom.
~ Robert Frost

The poem may embody
perception so luminous
it seems truth, but
what keeps it alive
is not fixed discovery,
but the means of discovery;
what it keeps alive
is intelligence.
~ Louise Glück

Poetry recycles things,
takes ordinary things
and makes them
into art.
- Luke Whisnant