With The Art & Croft of Poetry, poets will build their poetry-writing skills with help from past and contemporary masters - everything from generating ideas to examining the finished poem. They'll learn how to:. Use journals to develop their observational skills and turn life experiences into ideas for poems. Master the tools of the trade - voice, line, stanza, title, metre and rhyme. Acquire fluency in a variety of poetry formats and forms, everything from narrative, lyric and dramatic verse (traditional formats) to fixed, free and sequence styles (traditional forms). Fine tune their work Exercises, assignments and sample work from more than 100 standout poets - everyone from Walt Whitman to Louise Gluck - ensure that every reader, whether poet, student or bibliophile, discovers just how extraordinary poetry can be.
Michael Bugeja is a professor and the director of the Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication at Iowa State University of Science and Technology. He is the author of 22 books, including Living Ethics Across Media Platforms (2008) and Interpersonal Divide: the Search for Community in a Technological Age (2005), both published by Oxford University Press and both winners of the Clifford G. Christians Award for Research in Media Ethics.
Dr. Bugeja's commentaries on media ethics and technology have been cited internationally in such outlets as The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Guardian (UK), Toronto Globe & Mail (Canada), Die Welt (Germany), China Daily, The International Herald Tribune (France), The Ecologist (UK), The Futurist and the Associated Press as well as online news editions of CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.
An prolific magazine freelancer writer, Dr. Bugeja publishes frequently in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The Quill, Editor & Publisher, The Futurist, The Ecologist and other online and print publications. He has served as contributing editor and/or correspondent for several magazines, including Writer's Digest, where he also was poetry columnist for several years. His Art & Craft of Poetry (Writer's Digest Press) is a classic, with 50,000 copies sold since 1994. In addition, Dr. Bugeja is a creative writer and winner of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship with publications in Harper's, Poetry, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, and Sewanee Review, among others.
