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3.00 Credits
As writers, the practice of setting movable type and printing texts by hand is an invaluable esthetic and practical resource. This class explores letterpress printing from the writer's point of view, bringing literary considerations to those of typography, bookmaking, visual design and layout. As writers/printers, students investigate the letterpress possibilities for poetry and fiction through the production of broadsides, postcards and a limited-edition chapbook. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department. Materials fee.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the basic premises of Surrealism and Dadaism. This course excavates these influential literary movements through close readings of significant, albeit often neglected, practitioners, such as Aime Cesaire, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Else von Freytag-Loringhoven. The course includes an orientation to the ideas of Surrealism and Dadaism with close attention to how these ideas were interpreted and exploited by a variety of artists, especially in relation to how these movements moved from a centralized European and masculinist orientation. Students are given the opportunity to try out Surrealist and Dadaist artistic projects and evaluate the relevance of these movements to the 21st century.
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3.00 Credits
Architectural form and aesthetics is our resource as we develop different kinds of spaces in our writing and imagine the movements/passages/thresholds that bring those spaces to life. How can we envision narrative space and structure as a site of unfolding and transformation What is an architecture of loss or desire but also, how can we make an architecture to have encounters we have never had before This class focuses on workshopping prose works, but also develops a language, through diverse, short readings, with which to speak about the construction of original spaces and the extension of existing ones. Open to W&L students only, others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
This workshop focuses on creating a poem of extended length. Drawing inspiration from poets working in the long or series poem form, students work with various texts including historical, cultural and contemporary. Sections of the selected works are read aloud in class to facilitate experimental writing exercises. These provide material to draw from for the weekly assignments that become the student's longer work. Informed by the works studied, students research a topic and incorporate in-class writing, assignments and discussion to create their own version of an extended poem. A final portfolio of the completed manuscript is required. Open to W&L students only, others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
Currency: a medium of exchange; the quality or state of belonging to the present time. This course examines the currency of young experimental poets in the new millennium. We develop lines of inquiry while focusing on books published after the year 2000: What do these writers value How do they negotiate form, meaning and the role of the author What are their influences How do they push beyond them And how does this affect you as a writer in the 21st century Because these are recent books, you will be among the first to write about these texts, forging a space for yourself in the critical world. The culmination is an analytic paper as well as a final manuscript of poetry.
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary introduction to Naropa lineages and American culture. Novelists/memoirists W.S. Burroughs, Joyce Johnson, Jack Kerouac; poets Diane DiPrima, Ginsberg, Corso; artists Joan Brown and Bruce Conner art & films are the artistic focus. Steven Taylor's punk music memoir False Prophets updates artistic strategies for survival by both men and women in America's sociopolitical climate re 1950s through the 1990s. Social class and gender are covered. Students keep a folder of poetry/prose assignments and write a research essay. Techniques for character & narrative development in fiction, poetry and nonfiction are stressed. Open to W&L students only, others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
This is a workshop, i.e. a place of production, where constructive advice on, and criticism of, the works produced by the participants is given both by the instructor and the participants themselves. While producing new and original work, the participants acquire a sense of how to talk about their own, and others', poetic writings. Materials include poetry and considerations of poetry, and we look at and discuss the work of both modern and postmodern authors along with participants' writing. Open to W&L students only, others by permission of the department.
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1.00 Credits
Concentrating on the radically divergent poetics of several poets/writers culled from a wide swath of history, class work includes reading and discussion of both selected and critical texts, research on the lives of the writers and writing our own works inspired and informed by these discoveries. Participation involves investigation into and discourse on the importance of each writer's life situation, cultural milieu, literary genre, historical context, geography and place among his or her contemporaries. By exploring the works of these writers in conjunction with and in relation to their biographical particulars, students develop their own independent writing methods and the skills to respond fully as poets creating in their own historical consequence.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores writing as a contemplative practice joining mindful attention with imaginative letting-go. We explore the meeting of Buddhist and Asian meditative and aesthetic traditions with examples of the poetics of the U.S. and European literary tradition, and the particular way in which their meeting took place at Naropa University. Reading emphasizes modern and contemporary U.S. poetics and the teachings of Ch gyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, and others on dharma art and contemplative poetics. Course work includes substantial sitting meditation, reading and discussion, and weekly creative writing exercises. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department.
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3.00 Credits
"Myself," said Montaigne, "am the groundwork of my book." An essay is a foray into such groundwork to produce personal or formal inquiries and assessments of any given topic, whether about hunting elephants, the death of a moth or about girls in Des Moines. In this course we both read and write short prose works encompassing autobiography, memoir, travel sketches and book reviews, demystifying and engaging a process that produces provocative and entertaining literature. Writers we look at may include Didion, Orwell, Baldwin and Woolf. Open to W&L and W&P students only, others by permission of the department.
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