PASCEP0029 - Creative Writing: Poetry-From Poem to Book

Course Description

Creative Writing—Poetry—from Poem to Book

Creative Writing from Poetry to Book is designed to meet the needs of those interested in developing skills in creative writing and poetry and who would like to know how to self-publish a collection of poetry. The class will publish an anthology of the poetry written in class.

Dr. Ramona L. Hyman is a writer, speaker and professor “whose words are powerful memories for us to walk in the 21st century,” says Sonia Sanchez. Dr. Hyman serves as a professor of English at Oakwood University. She is a graduate of Temple University (BA), Andrews University (MA), and earned her PhD from the University of Alabama. She is the author of I Am Black America. Of her literary work, critic, Dr. Joyce Joyce says, “Hyman challenges audiences to explore a poetic imagination grounded in a feel for the southern landscape, African-American literary and political history, Black spirituality, and a creative fusion of Black folk speech with a Euro-American poetic vernacular. Dr. Ramona L. Hyman emerges as a strong Black intellectual poetic voice.” Presently Hyman is working on “Montgomery 55 on My Mind: Lessons from the Boycott,” and “Jesus in Alabama,” a poetry collection.