Description
2024 Cohort
Through the reading and practice of creative writing, this course explores trauma—an unassimilable, often unspeakable psychic and spiritual injury usually arising from acts of violence, which may be the central malady of our era. This writing and literature class is devoted to finding words for it. We’ll look at texts from Lamentations to Voices From Chernobyl, from Natasha Trethaway’s Memorial Drive to medical professionals’ accounts of the coronavirus pandemic, and undertake writing assignments designed to make trauma, and particularly the trauma of others, intelligible to readers.
DM910-2 Experimental Prose & Poetry
This course will explore contemporary poetry through readings, discussions, writing exercises and workshopping those writings. It will engage a variety of topics and subjects. Students will practice/experiment with writing poems as well as making constructive comments on the work of peers in the workshop setting.
DM910-3 Short Story: Ffiction
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