Queer Poetry and Poetics

This course offers an investigation into queer poetry and poetics within a contemporary and historical framework. Undergirded by recent works from LGBTQIA poets alongside foundational scholarship, it will explore what queerness as an identity, politic, and theoretical framework might teach us about poetry and what the formal, voice-driven, and experimental elements of poetry might teach us about queerness. Works may include offerings from Eve Sedgwick, José Esteban Muñoz, Audre Lorde and new books of poems by Franny Choi, Charif Shanihan, Paul Tran as well as others. Students are invited to respond to the provocations of this class in a variety of ways including both creatively and critically.