Feminist Poetics

Feminist Poetics
Special Topics course for BFA-1 students only.

Through the lens of feminist poetics, we will
explore how writers and artists navigate
relationships between writing, identity, culture,
politics, and art making in their work. We will
ask, how might feminist poetics offer strategies
for envisioning and re-visioning language use,
form, genre, and ideas? How are feminist poetics
modes of critique, desire, invention, research,
inquiry, and imaginative praxis? How have writers
and artists taken up feminist poetics to create
visions of resistance and transformation?

Together, we will read poems, prose, essays,
statements of poetics, prompts, provocations, and
interviews. We'll also listen to podcasts, watch
videos, and hear from guests who share about their
work and commitments. Our class spirit is
generative and collaborative. It invites process,
inquiry and reflection. As a Level-100 Special
Topics course, you will participate in weekly
writing workshops related to the course material.
The workshops and writing assignments are
opportunities to build writing skills and
confidence, explore different writing methods and
strategies, and compose critical-creative papers
and poetic pieces that explore your thinking about
course texts and ideas. Writing workshops are a
central component of our class where students
share their own writing and respond to their
peers' work.