Poetry in the Realms of the Senses

There are many ways to write candidly about the body. In this course, you plunge into–and beyond–the realms of your senses to shape new work. We explore different facets and themes of writing about sensory perceptions; movement; and of course, the body, in all its necessary excavations, eroticisms and exorcisms; so that one might re-center existing narratives, draw new inspiration and find autonomy of their voice. We will seek to search for and reshape all what it means to inhabit the human body. We’ll read work by Safiya Sinclair, Paul Tran, Roy G. Guzmán, Christian Gullette, Natalie Diaz, Dorothy K. Chan, Carl Phillips, Chen Chen and more.