Class Detail

Close reading--critical and creative--of poetry. Examines how poets teach, through their writing, to radically attend to reading. The course topics changes; please see the Class Search for current topic. Critical approach designations: Genres, Histories. Distribution requirement: Poetry. May be repeated for credit.

From the instructor: Topic - Small Press Poetry of the San Francisco Bay Area. This course is a brief survey of counter-cultural poetry and poetry communities in the larger San Francisco Bay Area in the last twenty-five years of the 20th century and the first almost 25 of the 21st.
It is an engaged reading and writing class. We?ll read broadly innovative poetry from small presses based in or near the San Francisco Bay Area; think together about what?s different about this poetry compared to poetry published in larger or more mainstream presses; and read writing about these communities of origin and how they shape and are shaped by the work of the poets they publish.
Many small presses come to exist in order to publish writers and writing that have been excluded from other spaces. In that way, they are often overtly opposed to systems of oppression including capitalism, racism, sexism, and homophobia, and interested in telling untold histories, and pushing back against received notions of aesthetic value.

Days & Times	Room	Instructor	Meeting Dates
TuTh 09:00AM-12:30PM	PhysSciences 130	Mack,M.D.	07/29/24 - 08/30/24