| Course Title: Topics in Creative Writing: 'Cosmic Writing' |
| Start Date: 01/27/2026 End Date: 05/12/2026 |
| Term: Spring Semester 2026 |
| Description: This creative writing course expands language to cosmic proportions. Reading and writing poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and other genres, we will bring the cosmos into our words alongside writers and artists whose works create a total experience, building worlds at multiple scales. Zooming in and out of our bodies and across time and space, we will write in alliance with spirits, animals, astrology, ancestry, and the elements. Authors and artists may include Etel Adnan, Octavia Butler, Henry Lefebvre, Gloria Anzalda, Davi Kopenawa, Kamau Brathwaite, Jennif(f)er Tamayo, and Ana Mendieta. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Lucas de Lima | ldelima@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 01/27/2026 - 05/12/2026 | Seminar | Wednesday | 01:30PM - 04:20PM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: ENGL-201. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Course Tags | ||
| ENGL0002 | ENGL-RP: Race, Power, and Difference | This course has been approved to count towards the English major's Race, Power, and Difference Disciplinary Perspectives requirement. |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Closed | Capacity: 16 | Enrollment: 16 | Available: 0 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| To be determined. |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is NOT the complete book list for this class. |