Special Topics: Writing the Poetic Sequence
ENGL 394
Fall 2024 not offered
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In this special topics seminar, students will continue to hone their creative and critical skills while focusing on the joys, opportunities, and challenges of crafting the long poetic sequence. Throughout the semester, students will write, revise, and workshop their own drafts-in-progress, and will study some of the greatest sequences written in the language. Poets and artists under consideration include Francis Bacon, Black Thought, Erykah Badu, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, John Coltrane, T.S. Eliot, Ross Gay, Allen Ginsberg, Aracelis Girmay, Robert Hayden, Major Jackson, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Layli Long Soldier, Adrienne Rich, Nicole Sealey, Danez Smith, Patricia Smith, and Walt Whitman. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: ENGL216 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Walt Whitman, LEAVES OF GRASS; T.S. Eliot, THE WASTE LAND
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly reading responses, final creative and critical portfolio |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course contributes to the fulfillment of ENGL major requirements: Creative Writing Requirement, Creative Writing 300-level course, Creative Writing upper-level workshop, elective. |
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