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ENGLISH 2CW3

GENRE IN CREATIVE WRITING

Undergraduate

Fall 2026 · C01

Topics

  • Basho, “The Old Pond”
  • Eugenia Zuroski, Kintail Beach
  • Liz Lerman. Critical Response Process . Please read from the introduction up to and including chapter 6.
  • Sylvia Plath, “Mad Girl’s Love Song”
  • Agha Shahid Ali, “First Day of Spring”
  • Shakespeare, “Sonnet 1”
  • Sonnet L’Abbé, “Sonnet 1”
  • Tommy Pico, “Malibu” from Nature Poem
  • Hole, “Malibu” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0CYB5V9e64
  • Rihanna, “BBHMM” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLEiy2xTyVY
  • Tiana Clark, “BBHMM”
  • Joy Harjo, “Praise the Rain”
  • Angel Nafis, “Ode to Shea Butter”
  • Tiana Clark, “How I Wrote BBHMM” The Adroit Journal
  • Elizabeth Acevedo, “Hair” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0svS78Nw_yY
  • Elizabeth Acevedo, “Afro-Latina” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPx8cSGW4k8
  • Klyde Broox, “Reloading the caNnon” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ7vgFKb_7w
  • Alexis Pauline Gumbs, selections from Dub
  • N.K. Jemisin, “The City Born Great”
  • Octavia Butler, excerpt from Parable of the Sower
  • Ursula LeGuinn, “The Day Before the Revolution”
  • Waubgeshig Rice, “Limbs”
  • Lareina Abbott, “The Grateful Dead” https://www.heartlines-spec.com/the-grateful-dead-by-lareina-abbott/

Readings

  • Critical Response Process: a method for getting useful feedback on anything you make, from dance to dessert.
    Liz Lerman · Required
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