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Shakespeare, Part 1

Before Performing, Watch

The Performance Toolkit

Case Study: Performance of Poetry

Rapping and Rhyme Schemes 

Deliver Your Poetry Dynamically

Discovering the Subject

Writing the Poem

Discussion With Marie Howe: Emily Dickinson

Sound Pleasures

Turning a Poem

Discussion With Marie Howe: "What the Living Do"

Humor as a Serious Strategy

A Poet's Journey

Shakespeare, Part 2

Everyone Can Write Poetry

Meet Your Instructor

Imagery and Form

Elevate the Ordinary With Poetic Techniques

Mapping Representation

Enhance Life With Poetic Insight

Finding Melodic Inspiration

The Beat

Riff Rock Writing: Verses and Multitracking

Introduction

Making a Beat: Tweaking and Layering Drums

Making a Beat: Creating a Breakdown

Finding Your Rhythm 

Playing the Timbales 

Experimenting With Percussion 

Improvising Alone

Meet Your Instructor: Questlove

Gathering Music: Organizing and Pruning

Training Your Ears to Listen

Evoke Emotion With Novel Techniques

Using Poetry to Understand Language

Introduction: The Pleasure Poetry Gives Us

Working With Form

Finding Your Voice: Influences

Student Discussion: "My (Muslim) Father Seizes the Thing on My Nightstand" by Sarah Iqbal

How to Start Writing

Building Your Career as a Poet

Breakthrough: Behind the Scenes of “The Hill We Climb”

Going Into Difficult Places

Honoring the Source

Poetry Ancestors

Express Profound Truths Through Poetry

Developing Your Narrative Style

Descriptive and Vivid Language

Writing Process

Discussion With Marie Howe: William Shakespeare

Playing a Visible Game

Student Discussion: "The Crash" by Paul Epland

Case Study: Close Reading - “On The Pulse of Morning” 

The Writing Toolkit

Revision, Revision, Revision 

Case Study: Editing & Revision 

Using Poetic Lyrical Techniques

Illustrate With Lyrical Poetry

Writing

Scripting Your Own Success

Mindy Kaling

Achieve More With GenAI

Ethan Mollick

Don Allen III

Teaches Creative Writing

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood Teaches Creative Writing

Teaches Purposeful Communication

George Stephanopoulos

George Stephanopoulos Teaches Purposeful Communication

Teaches Creativity and Film

David Lynch

David Lynch Teaches Creativity and Film

Teaches Writing Thrillers

Dan Brown

Dan Brown Teaches Writing Thrillers

Teaches Fiction, Memory, and Imagination

Amy Tan

Amy Tan Teaches Fiction, Memory, and Imagination

Reframe Your Thinking

Ava DuVernay

Teaches the Art of the Short Story

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates Teaches the Art of the Short Story

Teaches Game Design and Theory

Will Wright

Will Wright Teaches Game Design and Theory

Teach Developing an Original TV Series

The Duffer Brothers

The Duffer Brothers Teach Developing an Original TV Series

Teaches Fantasy and Science Fiction Writing

N. K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin Teaches Fantasy and Science Fiction Writing

Teaches Storytelling and Humor

David Sedaris

David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling and Humor

Teaches Reading and Writing Poetry

Billy Collins

Teaches Screenwriting

Aaron Sorkin

Aaron Sorkin Teaches Screenwriting

Teaches Mystery and Thriller Writing

David Baldacci

David Baldacci Teaches Mystery and Thriller Writing

Teaches Fiction and Storytelling

Walter Mosley

Teaches Writing for Social Change

Roxane Gay

Roxane Gay Teaches Writing for Social Change

Teaches Writing and Performing Poetry

Amanda Gorman

Teaches Effective and Authentic Communication

Robin Roberts

Robin Roberts Teaches Effective and Authentic Communication

Teaches Documentary Filmmaking

Ken Burns

Ken Burns Teaches Documentary Filmmaking

Lessons from Influential Black Voices

Angela Davis

Cornel West

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw

Nikole Hannah-Jones

Sherrilyn Ifill

Jelani Cobb

John McWhorter

Black History, Black Freedom, and Black Love

Teaches Investigative Journalism

Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward Teaches Investigative Journalism

Teaches Storytelling and Writing

Salman Rushdie

Teaches Writing

Judy Blume

Judy Blume Teaches Writing

Teaches Writing for Television

Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes Teaches Writing for Television

Teaches Dramatic Writing

David Mamet

David Mamet Teaches Dramatic Writing

Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Gladwell Teaches Writing

Teaches Writing for Young Audiences

R.L. Stine

R.L. Stine Teaches Writing for Young Audiences

Teaches Poetic Thinking

Joy Harjo

Teaches Creating Outside the Lines

Issa Rae

Issa Rae Teaches Creating Outside the Lines

Teaches the Power of Storytelling 

LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton Teaches the Power of Storytelling

Tell a Great Story

Michael Lewis

Icons and Their Influences

Gloria Steinem

Kevin Smith

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Express Yourself Through Poetry

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