In this course we will develop/cultivate a relationship with research as a creative process—as an art—that is essential to creative writing, narrative problem solving, knowledge making, and the revelation of truth. We will explore, in reading and through our own writing projects, a range of research methodologies that move beyond more conventional modes into experimental, sensorial, somatic, affective and improvisational realms, including reenactment, ritual, pilgrimage, performance, dreams, among other forms of deep listening and imaginative/intuitive practices. We will consult creative research by writers/artists such as Diana Khoi Nguyen, Rea Tajiri, Don Mee Choi, Barbara Browning, Tina Campt, Alice Walker, and Bhanu Kapil, who writes, in her book Humanimal, “I put my hand on her grave and waited, until I could feel the rhythm, faintly, of breathing.”

An intermediate class in writing poetry through its visual attributes, space on the page, and positioning. Previous writing course is not required