ENGL 120 PZ -Ecopoetry Workshop

Institution: Pitzer

Description: How can poetry respond to and reimagine the environment and our place within it, particularly in a time of ecological crisis? What might it mean to collaborate with the environment in the process of making a poem? Drawing on works of ecopoetry and documentary poetics, we will consider the relations between human and nonhuman life, the meaning of survival in the midst of climate change, and the connections between place, collective memory, and belonging. Students will compose weekly poems in response to the course topics and a site-specific project based on creative fieldwork. The course will also include field trips in the surrounding area. Pre-requisite: one college-level course in creative writing.

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