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Poetry In America

Published on February 6, 2022

Poetry In America

Poetry in America Intensive

Experience poetry as it speaks to other art forms and opens new windows on many of the social and political issues of our time. And confer one ASU credit that can be transferred to a university of choice.

Poetry in America Intensive

4th – 12th
July 2022

7:00 pm to
9:00 pm IST

Grade 8 -12
Age 13 -17

Deadline
30th June 2022

INR 15,000
+ GST

Priority Deadline

15th May 2022

4th – 12th
July 2022

7:00 pm to
9:00 pm IST

Grade 8 -12
Age 13 -17

Deadline
30th June 2022

INR 15,000
+ GST

Priority Deadline

15th May 2022

Priority applicants would get preference in their admission to the course. We only select the 5 top students from each of our partner schools.

Learn under Professors from Harvard and Arizona State University

Earn a transferable ASU College-level credit while in High School!

Enhance Vocabulary, Sentence Formation, Syntax, and Creativity

Create your own poem or another art form focussed on a social issue

Enter the Intriguing World of Poetry!

Join our poetry classes to hop on a literary field trip across America through time, to experience poetry as it speaks to other art forms–music, visual art, dance, photography–and, as it opens new windows on many of the social and political issues of our time.

Created by Poetry in America founder and director Professor Elisa New, Director of the Center for Public Humanities at ASU, and the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University, the Poetry in America Intensive will prepare learners for college-level literature courses in a fun, interactive setting.

This week-long poetry workshop offers 15 hours of intensive programming, including live virtual instruction and pre-recorded video content, and confers one ASU credit that can be transferred to a college or university of the learner’s choice.

Improve Language
Skills

Earn College-Level
Credit

Certificate
of Achievement

Spark
Creative Thinking

Improve
Self-Expression

Introduction to College Level Literature

Identify Formal and thematic features of poems and other texts.

Connect texts to other art forms

Link poems with art forms like hip-hop, ballet, jazz and more.

American Literary History

Study historical, socio-cultural and artistic climates that shaped American Poetry

learn to

Learn Argumentative Writing

Incorporate Argumentative and Expository rhetoric within your writing

Enhance Self-Expression

Streamline expression of emotions, feelings and thoughts in your writing

Work on a poem

Develop a Poem or another art form addressing a social issue in a group

Introduction to College-Level Literature

Identify Formal and thematic features of poems and other texts.

Connect texts to other art forms

Link poems with art forms like hip-hop, ballet, jazz and more.

American Literary History

Study historical, socio-cultural and artistic climates that shaped American Poetry

Learn Argumentative Writing

Incorporate Argumentative and Expository rhetoric within your writing

Enhance Self-Expression

Streamline expression of emotions, feelings and thoughts in your writing

Work on a poem

Develop a Poem or another art form addressing a social issue in a group

Who Should Participate?

Meet Your Mentor

Ross Weissman

Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University,
Professor & Researcher at Harvard University

Meet Your Mentor

Ross Weissman

Master's Degree in Education from Harvard University,
Instructor at Arizona State University

He is a poet, educator, and entrepreneur. His poetry and translations have appeared in Blue Lyra Review, Exchanges, Caliban Online, Pusteblume, and elsewhere. As both a poet and educator, he values the diverse life experiences, contexts, and voices of each of his students. He holds his master’s degree in education from Harvard, where he also served as a teaching fellow and researcher on a range of projects with humans and birds.

Featured Guests at Poetry In America

Poetry in America, created and directed by Harvard professor Elisa New, is a public television series and multi-platform educational initiative that brings poetry into classrooms and living rooms around the world. Dozens of guest interpreters have joined the conversation. They include:

Joe Biden

President of the United States

Featured in: Season 1, Episode 3 of Poetry in America: "Those Winter Sundays"

President Joe Biden, poet Elizabeth Alexander, psychologist Angela Duckworth, and a chorus of working fathers and sons reflect on Robert Hayden’s sonnet, and the fraught love between fathers and sons.

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Nasir “Nas” Jones

Hip Hop Artist

Featured in: Season 2, Episode 8 of Poetry in America: "Whitman"

Poetry In America celebrates the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth with Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, playwright Tony Kushner, hip hop artist Nas, composer Matthew Aucoin, and others discussing Whitman’s powerful and timeless work.

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Shaquille O’Neal

NBA

Featured in: Season 1, Episode 2 of Poetry in America:"Fast Break"

Zoom in on the rush of a fast break in Edward Hirsch’s ode to basketball, with the poet, NBA players Shaquille O’Neal, Pau Gasol, and Shane Battier, and a team of pick-up players.

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Earn College Credits

On completion of Poetry in America workshop, students are conferred one ASU credit that can be transferred to a college or university of the learner’s choice. College credits are used as a metric to award students academically in return for the effort they put in their coursework, along with the number of hours dedicated to finish a particular course.

Words from those Who Took the Course (And Loved it)

Jassimarat Kaur Bhatia

Grade 10, Heritage Xperiential School,
Gurugram

The program was everything I needed for my love for poetry to become something I can actually do credibly and pursue in college.

The program had central questions for everyday, which pushed me into reflecting and reading so much more material. It was a great experience as I was able to expand on my poetic knowledge and understand what it truly is to be a poet.

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Anushree Sahoo

Grade 11, Elpro International School,
Pune

I’ve never met so many people who share my passion in one place together. Sharing their ideas it was a blast of wows and a lot of creativity.

I’ve never seen so much growth in a span of 1-2 weeks. I’ve progressed from someone who saw poetry as a recreational tool, to someone who now utilises every little piece that I learnt to figure out every gap, every line break in poetry means.

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Eedha Kaul

Grade 11, Oberoi International School,
Mumbai

I absolutely loved being with a group of people who enjoyed poetry as much as I did. Not many people appreciate poetry that much.

In terms of analysing poems, it was a great learning experience and will help me alot in my school, as we are told to analyse poems. This will add so much more to my analysis. It was a very enriching experience.

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Poetry from the Workshop

The final session is all about harnessing creative powers to inspire change. In collaboration with fellow students, all participants use what they’ve learned throughout the intensive program to develop a poem or other work of art that addresses a social issue. Check out a few poems by our pudding poets.