Fall 2017 - ENGL 372 E100
Creative Writing I: Poetry (4)
Class Number: 3897
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Sep 5 – Dec 4, 2017: Thu, 5:30–9:20 p.m.
Burnaby
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Instructor:
Clint Burnham
cba15@sfu.ca
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Prerequisites:
Two 100 division English courses and two 200 division English courses.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
A seminar-workshop in the theory and practice of creative writing with specific emphasis on poetry.
COURSE DETAILS:
ENGL 372 is a workshop-based creative writing course. We will be reading, and drawing from during the course, three models for writing poetry: the conceptual anthology Against Expression (eds. Dworkin and Goldsmith), the visual/concrete poetry of Derek Beaulieu and others, and my own collection Pound @ Guantánamo. Students will begin by being asked what it means to write on the unceded traditional lands of the Coast Salish peoples. We will then learn how to make poems out of social media and other digital forms, write pop-up poems, instant poems, poems on their phones, poetry on posters to put up around campus, take part in a reading at the end of term, and work on a serial or long poem over the semester. We will also attend a symposium on concrete/visual poetry featuring poets Beaulieu and Judith Copithorne, critic Jamie Hilder, artist Kathy Slade, and archivist Shyla Sellar on October 27, downtown.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
To write poetry, having read poetry.
Grading
- workshop participation 25%
- short assignments x 5 50%
- serial poem 25%
Materials
REQUIRED READING:
Against Expression (ed. Kenneth Goldsmith and Craig Dworkin)
ISBN: 978-0810127111
Pound @ Guantánamo (Clint Burnham)
ISBN: 9780889229792
Department Undergraduate Notes:
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