Reading and Writing Black Poetry
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This course is an exploration of twentieth and twenty-first century black poetry and poetics. Readings include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Natasha Trethewey, Terrance Hayes, Claudia Rankine, and Danez Smith. Texts will be mined for theme as well as formal technique as a basis for poetic experimentation.
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