LARTS 364 — Poetry by Women of Color

3 credits
Fall
Desirée Alvarez

This course explores the flourishing of contemporary poetry by women of color. We consider how they re-invent language to express new responses to themes of discontent, beauty, emotion, consciousness, politics, and the sublime. We will study the foundational poets for historical context and movements such as Afrofuturism. Some of the poets we shall read include Lucille Clifton, Natalie Diaz, Victoria Chang, Banu Kapil, Ada Limón, Solmaz Sharif, Cathy Park Hong, Harmony Holiday, Dawn Lundy Martin, Monica Youn and Claudia Rankine. We will write our own poems back to these poets in class and students will focus on individual projects.