Generative AI in the Poetry Workshop

Devanny, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9722-4232 (2026) Generative AI in the Poetry Workshop. In: The Creative Writing Workshop in the 21st Century. Bloomsbury Academic, London, UK, pp. 145-162. ISBN 9781350497382

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Abstract / Summary

Since the general release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022, there has been a significant shift in the public and critical discourse on artificial intelligence and its potential impact on culture and society. In writing studies, we have seen concerns of a real threat to authorship and the ceding of human agency (Baron 2023) and the proposition that AI might “choke creative writing” (Ravichandran 2024), alongside numerous attempts to embrace and integrate LLM use in creative writing pedagogy (Laist 2024). Two years on, this chapter considers the impact and potential uses for generative AI in undergraduate poetry workshop, making the case that there are already substantial precedents and learning frameworks within the poetry workshop tradition to help parse these emergent technologies, that these technologies can be useful tools, and that there is a need to equip students with understanding of these tools (including critical engagement with the ethical concerns). This chapter has three sections. The first section explores the historical contexts and precedents that can aid with the integration of emergent AI technologies in the poetry workshop. The second section offers a selection of methods that could be deployed the undergraduate poetry workshops, and this is primarily a case-study section based on my own teaching practice at a UK university, rather than an exhaustive survey of sector wide uses. The third and final section considers Creative Writing student expectations of AI embedded within the curriculum, including ethical considerations and the implications for their professional practice beyond graduation and reflects on original data I collected in 2023.

Item Type:	Book Section
ISBN:	9781350497382
Subjects:	Communication > Creative Writing Education
Department:	School of Communication
Depositing User:	David Devanny
Date Deposited:	10 Jun 2026 10:03
Last Modified:	10 Jun 2026 10:03
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/6501

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