Interdisciplinary Arts 0349 - Poetry & Politics of Identity

What makes a voice universal? How does identity color our reading or alter our expectations of a poem? How does a poet's identity inform their poetic approach? In this course, we'll shift our focus from poetry to poet, text to context, and back, as we explore how the poet's identity operates both within their work and outside of it. Through class discussion and readings of poetry and essays, we'll approach questions of permission and permissibility, responsibility, appropriation and re-appropriation, and the identity poetics and politics at play in the evolving landscape of contemporary American poetry.

Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. This time includes reading, writing, resear