What makes great poems? In this class, we will read and discuss the craft strategies involved in work that resonates. We will examine such things as anaphora, enjambment, meter, metaphor, and so forth, in poems offered to us by Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Louise Gluck, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Rosanna Warren, and Tim Seibles, to name a few. Students will be encouraged to write poems and do poetic exercises, with time also spent workshopping new work. Our guiding questions will be: how did they do it? And, can we do it, too?