Just a note to let you that there's still lots of room in this class for any students--freshman through senior--looking for a fun way to log 5 A&H credits, or those non-English majors looking to spend some time learning from creative writers and doing some of their own creative writing. I'm also extremely open to students who would like to take this class for W credits.
This is a great class for your majors who harbor a secret—or not so secret!—love of reading and writing, or those who are just curious about how poets and novelists create their work. In past years, I’ve had students from nearly every major and ranging from freshman to senior. I’ve enjoyed working with all of them!
This winter, the class will meet in person, although some of our visiting writers will join us over Zoom. This large class will be broken into smaller pods to provide a sense of community, to share and receive feedback on their own experiments in writing poetry, fiction, and memoir, and to discuss issues raised by the assigned readings. On their own time, students will watch recordings of a wide variety of writers lecturing or reading from their work, read widely, and participate in online discussion forums.
You should also know that while this class does not generally fulfill the “W” requirement, I have occasionally adapted the required writing so that an individual student can receive that credit. I ask you NOT to widely disseminate that information, but if you find a student who wants to take the class and where the need to fulfill a “W” requirement would prevent them from doing so, please send them to me so that I could explain how it could be met.