Course details

Name: ENWR - 250

Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITING: BILINGUAL POETRY WORKSHOP

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2019

Credits: 3

Description:
This special topics course is a poetry writing workshop that embraces a bilingual (or even multilingual) approach to reading and writing poetry. I would like to make clear that you DO NOT NEED to be fluent in Spanish or Portuguese to take this course; of course, students who are able to read or even write in Spanish or Portuguese might be particularly interested in this class. I am trying to create an environment in which different languages circulate; the poetry will be presented in bilingual format. I want all students to feel included. We will read poetry from across the Americas. Poets might include Pablo Neruda, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Gabriela Mistral, Adélia Prado, Cesar Vallejo, among others. We will read poems that are themselves bilingual - poems by Eduardo C. Corral and Javier Zamora, for instance. The reading of these poets will inspire our own writing process. For example: we might imitate Mistral's "Decalogue" or Neruda's "elemental" poetry. We will think about translation and the silences between tongues. We might write a "concrete" poem inspired by the Brazilian concretists. Mario Quintana refers to poetry as "an amplified interjection." We will think about the music of a language, too, for it is often the rhythms and rhymes of poetry that make it so intoxicating.

Last updated on 2018-10-09 By Galef David (galefd)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 11:30 am To 12:45 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Creative Writing (CW)

Teaching Faculty: Lorenz Johnny (lorenzj)

Is course canceled: No