The course centers work by poets in the LGBTQ+ community and BIPOC poets and is focused on 1) learning how to talk and write about poetry "like a poet" and 2) developing new techniques for experimenting with poetry. As this is an introductory course, no previous poetry knowledge is required. We will think about poetry as words to be spoken and heard; as visual objects to be seen and touched; as sounds to be made and felt; as intersubjective experience to be shared; as pedagogy; as politics; as play; and as performance. We will ask and seek answers to questions such as what gets to count as a “poem”? what can a poem do? what should a poem do? why make poems? and weigh our own answers against those given by theorists and critics of poetry, literature, and aesthetics, with particular emphasis on the contributions of LGBTQ+ poets and BIPOC poets to both poetic craft and theories of poetry. Work consists of three workshops to get student and instructor feedback on your original poems, daily short reading and poetry writing activities, three short informal reading responses, and a portfolio of revised poems. Fulfills ACE 7.
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