Red Tree Review is pleased to provide online learning modules for students of creative writing, faculty teaching poetry units, and emerging writers working independently to sharpen their craft. All modules include introductory videos, multimedia content, formative interactive exercises, readings with guided questions, generative prompts, and summative self-assessments (quizzes). These modules are free and open to all learners in order to support public access to education in the literary arts.
Understanding the Line
An introduction to the poetic line as a unit of meaning, with a focus on distinct forms of line breaks and their effect on the reader.
Understanding the Stanza
An introduction to stanzaic and stichic choice as a structural decision informed by literary influence within the scope of free verse.
Understanding Imagery
An introduction to several types of imagery, their importance to the experience of the poem, and their effect on the reader.
Understanding Sound
An introduction to the mechanics of musicality in contemporary poems, including the effects of various “echoing” devices and the modern usage of the rhyme.
Understanding Rhythm
An introduction to some basic methods for identifying stresses or beats in a poem and feeling the effect of the poem’s chosen cadence.
Understanding Compression
An introduction to one of the most influential models in contemporary poetics, including the related concepts of inference and word economy.
Understanding Syntax
An introduction to several distinct syntactic structures, their effects on the reader, and the effect of syntactic focus or variation.
Understanding Speech Acts
An introduction to five types of speech acts and their use in contemporary poetry, with a focus on reader engagement via speech act intentionality and variation.
Understanding Negative Capability
An introduction to Keats’s poetic theory and its implications for contemporary poems, including aesthetic prioritization and the removal of ego.
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