Experiments in Making

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This generative creative writing course is open to students across genres and is ideal for writers embarking on longform projects or integrating research into original texts. It is my hope that weekly, collective study of works by such thinkers as Kamau Brathwaite and Helene Cixous will agitate our imaginative practices in generative and needful ways. As a way of learning with assigned materials, class participants are expected to write and revise work in response to in-class prompts, give presentations on assigned topics in craft, and provide peers with thoughtfully considered feedback and observations of their work. The course will be reading and writing intensive. It will also be a kind of laboratory for trying and making. Among the artists whose work we will likely think with are Federico García Lorca, Helene Cixous, Kamau Brathwaite, Flying Lotus, Cristina Rivera Garza, Pina Bausch, Robin Coste Lewis, Bhanu Kapil, mangaliso buzani, Victoria Chang, Anne Boyer, and Ghassan Zaqtan.