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Join Kevin Griffith, professor of English at Capital University, to discuss the four basic questions all good poems answer: Who is the speaker? Where is the speaker? What does the speaker hope to learn? And what is the speaker about to learn? He will discuss these questions using two poems: a classic poem, "The Chimney Sweeper," by William Blake, and more contemporary poem, "Traveling Through the Dark," by William Stafford. Then, Kevin will lead participants in a five-line poetry exercise to practice what they have learned. All participants will leave with their own original poem!
Dr. Kevin Griffith is a professor of English at Capital University and professor of legal writing at Capital Law School. He is the author of three books of poetry: Someone Had to Live (1994), Paradise Refunded (1999), and Denmark, Kangaroo, Orange (2008). He is also the author of 101 Kinds of Irony (2012), a collections of fiction, and the editor of The Common Courage Reader: Essays for an informed Democracy (2001). Dr. Griffith is also the creator of www.Brickjest.com, a website featuring a recreation of David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest in Lego. Stories about the website have been featured in dozens of major newspaper and magazines and throughout the world. He has received four Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards in Poetry, the most recent one in 2017. He has received the Praestantia Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Cotterman Award for Excellence in Advising, and most recently, the Faculty Scholarship Award
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