Department of English

This is a course for students who are interested in exploring a variety of approaches to creative writing, including poetry, prose narratives, autobiography, and hybrid genre writing. Readings will include poetry and memoir, and will represent various approaches to writing from life, including works by Hoa Nguyen, Renee Gladman, and Lyn Hejinian, among others. Students will be encouraged to discover new territory, to cultivate a sense of play, to collaborate, and to unhinge conventional assumptions regarding what is possible in writing. Students will write new creative texts weekly, and create a portfolio of their work from the semester.