**************************WRITTEN ARTS***************************

Writing is a single art with many voices.  This course is an integrated approach to the Written Arts.  It offers a workshop context for students who want to do serious work in creative writing, and provides a challenging introduction into the strategies, resources and manners of four of the main voices of writing.  Over the course of the year, students work in Fiction, Poetry, Playwriting, and Creative Non-fiction, spending half a semester in each, in an intensive workshop and reading context, guided by professional writers.  A student registers for the course by picking one of the two groups (A or B) that best fits the student’s schedule, and is then assigned to one of the four disciplines.  Students will be asked to rank the four areas in terms of personal interests, in order to best match their interests to the genre sequence. 

The Written Arts courses are for First-Year students only.

GROUP A:

Course	LIT 100 A Written Arts 100
Professor	Susan Rogers
CRN	97278
Schedule	Mon Wed 12 noon-1:20 pm OLIN 107
Distribution	Practicing Arts

Course	LIT 100 B Written Arts 100
Professor	Robert Kelly
CRN	97279
Schedule	Mon Wed 12 noon-1:20 pm OLIN 101
Distribution	Practicing Arts

GROUP B:

Course	LIT 100 C Written Arts 100
Professor	Zakiyyah Alexander
CRN	97382
Schedule	Wed Fr 12 noon - 1:20 pm FISH
Distribution	Practicing Arts

Course	LIT 100 D Written Arts 100
Professor	Edie Meidav
CRN	97383
Schedule	Wed Fr 12 noon - 1:20 pm HEG 300
Distribution	Practicing Arts

Course	LIT 221 Writers Workshop:Prose Fiction
Professor	Peter Sourian
CRN	97001
Schedule	Tu 10:30 - 12:50 pm ASP 302
Distribution	Practicing Arts

Practice in imaginative writing. Students will present their own work for group response, analysis, and evaluation. Also reading of selected writers. Permission of the instructor is required.

Course	LIT 222 Writer's Workshop: Poetry
Professor	Michael Ives
CRN	97381
Schedule	Mon Wed 3:00 -4:20 pm OLIN 309
Distribution	Practicing Arts

Students present their own work to the group for analysis and response. Readings in contemporary poets and the problematics of poetics. Attention will be paid to oral presentation of the poem.

Course	LIT 324 Advanced Fiction Workshop
Professor	Mary Caponegro
CRN	97281
Schedule	Mon 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 107
Distribution	Practicing Arts

A workshop on the composition of short stories, for experienced writers. Students will also read short fiction by established writers, and devote significant time to the composition and revision of their own stories.

Course	LIT 3303 Writing as Reading as Writing: Urban Poetics : The New York School & Beyond
Professor	Ann Lauterbach
CRN	97329
Schedule	Th 1:30 -3:50 pm OLIN 101
Distribution	Practicing Arts

Cross-listed: Integrated Arts
Beginning with the persona of Frank O'Hara (1926-66) poets in and around New York City began to explore Rimbaud's notion that “je est un autre” (I is another). As focus on an organizing egotistic sensibility erodes, the poem begins to take on urban characteristics: sudden shifts of perspective, narrative ambiguities, a complex relation to descriptive imagery, as well as a response to the immediacies of cultural and political energies. This course will explore how poets responded to the cosmopolitan vitality of New York City, their involvement with painters, dancers, film and composers, leading to some of the most radically innovative poetry of the postmodern era. Readings will include some critical essays, memoir, art writing, as well as poems. (Poets will include O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, Barbara Guest, Kenward Elmslie, Alice Notley, Eileen Myles, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, as well as some younger writers.)  Weekly responses in poem and prose form. Enrollment: 15.