Hybrid Forms: Poetry and Nonfiction

Catalog description

Maybe you have pieces that you want to fuse, or you write in a variety of genres and styles and can’t settle on one. This generative workshop/craft class explores hybrid poetics and nonfiction. We will discuss how writers use poetry and nonfiction (memoir, lyric essay, creative nonfiction) in innovative ways—blending them with interviews, conversations, translations, philosophy, history, other forms of literary art. Students will create new work in a variety of hybrid forms. Border works cross divides by crossing genres, forming a genre of their own. Students diversify their creative practices, and leave the course with hybrid works and a deeper understanding of the ways in which hybridity broadens their voice.