Reviews: First Year and Second Year

The Live Reading (First Years only)

For the first year MFA students, you will be required to attend a public reading and write a 500-750 word review of the event. Open Mics or a university or bookstore lecture featuring poet(s) reading their work fulfils this requirement.

In your review, you must provide the event information (date/location/poet) and answer the following questions:

-What type of reading is this?
-Did you connect with the work? How did the poet's read the work? Was it a performance? Read or memorised?
-Speak to the quality of the presentation. Was the poet engaging? How did the reading inform the poetry?

This assignment will be due and posted in Week 14; however you may complete the work at any point in the semester.


Book Review (Second Years only)

For the Second Year students, you will be required to write a 750-1000 word book review on a poetry collection that has been released within the last 12 months. This review should be written with submission to journals in mind, so make sure the review includes: author/title/publisher/release date.

There should be critical analysis within the essay which breaks down at least one poem from the collection.

This assignment will be due and posted in Week 14; however you may complete the work at any point in the semester.