Creative Writing: (Session I)

Writing Place: Sustainability and the Sacred

How does a place become sacred to you, to families, to cultures? How do you take care of sacred places? What values and practices help our sacred places grow and endure? In this course, we will explore the ways different poets talk about and represent place in order to interrogate notions of sustainability and the sacred. With undeniable intensities, the developments in technology and communication practices have altered the ways bodies, objects, and ideas move through and affect space. As a result, our relationships to place have radically transformed. So how do writers map the world around them today? How can place both contain and release poetic imagination? Throughout the semester, you will read, analyze, and create poetic texts that document your understandings of place, sustainability, and the sacred.