A Zine is an amorphous thing, a collage of self, a collection of snippets of what defines us. For the final 3 weeks of the semester, students took on a "Poetry Intensive", examining the work of a new poet each day, critiquing it, and attempting an original poem of their own.

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    From the playful rhythms of Shel Silverstein, to the ancient haiku of Matsu Basho, from the imagist verses of Williams Carlos Williams to the sonnets of Shakespeare, from the musical language of Gwendolyn Brooks to the lyricism of Anis Mojgani; students experimented broadly and deeply with poetic form and gathered their original poetry into zines, splicing in images, paintings, and collages to capture the messiness of their own mind and musings.