Creative Writing Studio: Poetics of Permeability and Fluidity

Undergraduate / Graduate

This studio invites students to explore the way literary language blurs barriers between self and other, enacting a poetics of permeability or fluidity in various ways, including figurative language, identity, and trance-based performance rituals. Texts will range widely, including film, cave art, narrative fiction, poetry, and performance work by Werner Herzog, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Haruki Murakami, Antonin Artaud, Ariana Reines, Yoko Ono, Will Alexander, Kim Hyesoon, John Ashbery and Jerome Rothenberg. Students will be able to respond with creative texts in various genres.