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How can we respond to propaganda with statements of enduring value? In a world of fake news and in the face of looming international conflict, this course seeks to present lyric poetry and photography as truth-seeking tools. Starting with the rise of American poetry in the Civil War period (poets Dickinson and Whitman; photographers Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner) and continuing through the present day, we will study attempts to humanize broad social and political conflicts. Finally, through our own poems and smartphone photographs, we will try to make sense of the violence that currently pervades American and international discourse.