Poetry of Witness

For those with an interest in poetry and social justice, this workshop will help students generate new work in response to current dark times. In this course, we will read and analyze contemporary witness and social justice poetry with the purpose of finding strategies for writing new poetry that is both personal and political. With a focus on experimentation and exercise, students will play with new forms while reaching for higher meaning and a wider audience, culminating in a small portfolio of work ready to be submitted to literary journals of varying size and aesthetics.