Learner Reviews & Feedback for Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop by California Institute of the Arts
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AC
Feb 1, 2024
Wonderful course! The opportunities for feedback were extremely helpful, and Douglas Kearney made the material easily accessible and understandable as well as entertaining. Highly recommend.
KM
Jun 23, 2020
Very useful for beginners as well as seasoned poets! Peer reviewers are thorough and usually very helpful. This course has definitely guided me in the direction of pursuing poetry academically.
526 - 550 of 769 Reviews for Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop
By Nupur M
•Sep 29, 2015
Good delivery and enough technicals to keep interested poets learning!
By Maria
•Mar 17, 2025
Engaging interesting and entertaining teaching and content. A+ class.
By Bill M
•Jan 25, 2023
Enjoyable and challenging - great for beginners and more epxerienced.
By María I V
•Mar 6, 2021
Really really good for begginers interested in learning about poetry.
By Reeba P
•Sep 19, 2020
It's a course where you can enhance your poetry skills more. Enjoy :)
By Karen S
•Feb 18, 2020
Fun and outstanding instructor!
Opened up a new world of poetry to me.
By Jason M B
•May 31, 2019
Excellent course and excellent instructor. Amazing community as well.
By Arnis S
•Feb 10, 2018
This course is essential for any poets! and Doug is a superb teacher!
By Madeline H
•May 19, 2020
A super engaging course. The professor made it current and exciting.
By RJ B
•Apr 14, 2016
The instructor engages the audience very well by his sense of humor.
By Nicola S
•Oct 12, 2015
I really enjoyed the course and would even consider taking it again!
By Matthew N
•Feb 15, 2024
Great and effective introduction to poetry - just what I was after!
By Derek H
•Jun 10, 2022
I learned a great deal about structure, rhyme, spacing, and rhythm.
By Johnish S
•Apr 30, 2025
it is great. especially, the professor's playful ways in classes.
By Cyndi M
•Apr 28, 2022
Great engaging and knowledgeable instructor with amazing prompts.
By Debashankar P P
•Aug 24, 2021
Excellent course of poetry for everyone who wanna learn about it.
By NUR F B M Z
•May 19, 2020
Really enjoyable and interesting ways of learning poetry writing.
By Kalah H
•Dec 26, 2020
Great introductory material and plenty of fun writing exercises!
By saismriti g
•May 9, 2020
it was a very useful course, helped me get my foundations right.
By AshLee R P
•Sep 1, 2016
Lovable instructor! Very informative! One of my favorite courses
By Chew W Y
•Jun 21, 2016
Excellent course with imaginative material and useful knowledge.
By Ashley B
•Feb 25, 2022
It was really fun and I learned to appreciate and love poetry.
By Margaret M
•Aug 17, 2025
I wanted to do this course again because I enjoyed it so much.
By Kutadi S S
•Apr 26, 2021
It's an excellent course for anyone who wants to learn Poetry.
By Jason S
•Nov 26, 2018
Engaging on a new level. I like the workshop format on a MOOC.