Welcome! Introduction to Creative Writing will hopefully serve as a site for your own writing goals. We’ll explore several genres and their interpretations and enactments, including poetry, long fiction, short fiction, Young Adult, and hybrid forms. Through discussion of published works and what they may evoke in us as readers based on our own experiences, we’ll use the words of others as a springboard for our own writing lives and projects. This course focuses heavily on the connections between reading and writing, and between writing and remembering/thinking/living/imagining. There will be a workshop component of the course in addition to a submitted portfolio due at the end of the term.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin
- Instructor of record: Taylor Lewis
- Instructor of record: Sanam Sheriff
- Instructor of record: Sam Allingham
Welcome to Writing Poetry I! In this class, we’ll talk about poetry as craft, as argument, as aesthetic, as statement, as expression of self and community, and as image and memory. Using the collected and individual works of poets as our guides, we’ll use the collaborative nature of poetry to foster an environment where individual writing needs can be met and focus and attention can be brought to the smallest of details. This class should serve as an introduction to the technique and evocations involved in writing and talking about poetry, with an emphasis on discussion, workshopping, and composition. This course focuses heavily on the connections between reading and writing, and between writing and remembering/thinking/living/imagining. There will be a workshop component of the course in addition to a submitted portfolio due at the end of the term.
“So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality… If poetry is your goal, you’ve got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it’s you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate.” - e.e. cummings
“So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was and is and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality… If poetry is your goal, you’ve got to forget all about punishments and all about rewards and all about self-styled obligations and duties and responsibilities etcetera ad infinitum and remember one thing only: that it’s you - nobody else - who determine your destiny and decide your fate.” - e.e. cummings
- Instructor of record: Taylor Lewis
- Instructor of record: Alexandra Chang
- Instructor of record: Lauren Feldman
- Instructor of record: Dee Matthews
- Instructor of record: Dee Matthews