Advanced Poetry Workshop

He is an amazing teacher (and poet, of course). I entered his class as a burnt-out writing student, stuck in a rut with the feeling that everything I wrote would be the same as everything I had written before. But as soon as he started teaching, I realized I had never actually been TAUGHT to write before, and Mark Strand would do just that. Just because he's amazing, though, and his class improved my poetry so much, doesn't mean I didn't feel like a total failure throughout the semester. He's very good at making you feel like everything you write is worth nothing. Oh, and he's a tough grader.