Interdisciplinary Arts 0165 - The New Guard

Robert Hass writes, "All the new thinking is about loss. / In this it resembles all the old thinking." And while the poets we will consider certainly consider loss in their thinking, they also expand that thinking to include such contemporary subjects as identity, home, sexuality, disease, justice, and police brutality. In this course, we will close read and respond to debut or second collections by several emerging poets. Students will annotate individual poems and develop interview questions for each collection. Readings may include work by Tommye Blount, Nicole Sealey, Aaron Coleman, Safia Elhillo, Danez Smith, Ladan Osman, Cortney Lamar Charleston, and Tarfia Faizullah among others.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Multiple Cultural Perspectives Independent Work In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time.