ENGH 608: Craft Seminars
ENGH 608-007: Writing About Climate Change: Ecopoetics
(Spring 2020)
04:30 PM to 07:10 PM R
Section Information for Spring 2020
This will be a class in ecopoetical thinking and action—that is, poem-building. As readers, poets, and human animals, we’ll turn to earth’s multitudes of inter-related cohabitants, especially the ones we live with here in the Virginian Piedmont. By reading and composing poems in awareness of, for, in, and to the “natural” and “human-built” world, we’ll investigate how the language and ideas of ecology and science can feed our work, how a deep sense of place and space is rooted in attentiveness to the language and to the systems in and around us. Let’s see how our work as artists might at the very least express the grief, anger, fear, hope, frustration, and hopelessness we all feel in the face of climate change. Maybe we’ll even talk about how art might help save our planet from ourselves.
Expect to read several books of poetry and to write poems each week in response to that reading. We’ll begin with some twentieth century forerunners before turning to a number of contemporary poets.
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Course Information from the University Catalog
Credits: 3
Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.
Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.
Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.
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