Instructor: Noehre TR 9:30 AM – 10:50 AM
In this generative poetry course, students will explore how contemporary writers grapple with love-related subjects such as desire and embodiment, revolutionary love, familial love, love which defies disaster, and gratitude as love praxis. Students will be given prompts to write poems that follow traditional structures of love poetry, such as the sonnet, and they will learn to break traditions to create expansive multi-modal pieces that explore topics such as loneliness and grief. We will examine these concepts weekly as we read works from writers such as Audre Lorde, Dawn Lundy Martin, Claudia Rankine, Mosab Abu Toha, and more. Students will engage in discussions around their own work and writing process alongside the assigned readings.