TRN195H: Poetry & the Public: Social Movements & the Ethics of Response
TRN195H: Poetry & the Public: Social Movements & the
Ethics of Response
Course Description
Poetry & The Public considers the motivation, intent, reception, and ethics of poetic response to major political events of the late 20th and 21st centuries. Through a wide survey of poems, we will investigate not only the contextual motivation for poets responding to political issues but interrogate the formal and performative means by which they present their work to the public. Poems will be read within a wider history of social movements and civil liberties; and touch upon major historical events such as the AIDS crisis, Black liberation struggles, movements for feminist and 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, ecological and climate-change concerns, and current calls for prison abolition. We will touch upon poetic 鈥渟chools鈥� or 鈥渟tyles,鈥� including the Poetics of Witness, persona poetry, the Black Arts Movement, and the Kootenay School of Writing. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Course Instructor
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Zoe Imani Sharpe Zoe Imani Sharpe is a poet聽working with collaborative language practices and reciprocal forms of education, including reading groups and interdisciplinary projects. She鈥檚 contributed poetry, essays and exhibition texts to various galleries and magazines, and currently teaches an undergraduate seminar on the intersections between poetry, performance and social movements. 聽聽 |
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