| Course Title: Topics in Creative Writing: 'Form as Experiment: Poetry, Prose, Hybrid' |
| Start Date: 09/09/2026 End Date: 12/22/2026 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2026 |
| Description: In this creative writing course, students will explore short literary forms including poetry, prose, prose poetry, micro-essays, flash fiction, fables, parables, and comix. We will study collections, series, and individual examples of short forms; authors studied may include Anne Carson, Lydia Davis, Diane di Prima, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Yasunari Kawabata, Michel de Montaigne, Harryette Mullen, Francis Ponge, Claudia Rankine, and Gertrude Stein. Everyone will make a short piece every week, with regular workshops. We will focus our attention on language, precision, compression, the turn, and how the constraint of length might create the aesthetic and political effects we desire. |
| Distribution(s): NO - Meets No Distrib. Rqmt , WI - Writing-Intensive , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Andrea Lawlor | alawlor@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/09/2026 - 12/22/2026 | Seminar | Monday and Wednesday | 12:00PM - 01:15PM | TBA | TBA | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| Prereq: ENGL-201 or equivalent. | Take previously | Required |
| Comments |
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| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 16 | Enrollment: 0 | Available: 16 | 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. |