Creative Nonfiction and Poetry Workshop

Harvard FAS

In this workshop-based class, students will write poems, creative nonfiction essays, and hybrid works to explore how truth, as both lived experience and external reference, moves in various ways: objective and literal, emotional, political, and personal, narrative and expository, lyrical and morphing. We'll read essays and poems by writers who famously cross and blend genres: Ross Gay, Mary Ruefle, Adrienne Rich, Tarfia Faizullah, Gregory Orr, Kaveh Akbar, Mary Oliver, Claudia Rankine, Ocean…