After: Poems in Conversation

No poem is written alone. Every poem is in conversation with the writing that came before it. This conversation crosses generations and cultures, erasing distances of time, space, and mortality. In this four-part class, we'll make that conversation intentional. We'll consider the what, why, and how of writing in dialogue with other writers: what it means to write after someone, why we might quote, echo, erase, or respond to another text, and how we might do so with care, integrity, and proper cr