Contemporary Black Feminist Paths (ENGLISH 292B, FEMGEN 292B)

In this reading- and writing-intensive course, we will consider the powers, resuscitations, and strategies found in the texts of a constellation of contemporary Black poets whose work emerges out of Black feminist thought and practices. My hope is that we will together listen toward the possibilities of this work, and through experiments in reading and writing, realize some of what these texts make it possible for us to think and feel and write and be. As a way of learning with the materials, class participants will be expected to write after-texts; share brief, prepared notes on the poem's paths; contribute workshop material for our workshops; and be ready to think with others about revision strategies, poetics, and ethics.