Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
CRES 179A Critical Filipinx Poetics: A Workshop for Reading and Writing Poetry
Writing workshop exploring the aesthetic and critical engagements of Filipina/o/x poets. Students analyze authors’ prosody and craft, and explore thematization of migration, family, violence, culture, history, and agency. How do Filipinx poets address racialization, gendering, sexuality, class, and citizenship? What are their commitments to place, the divine, multilingualism, and the natural world? Students also write and workshop poems. Assignments: portfolio of three poems, in-class writing exercises, revised poem drafts, peer review comments, and performance of poems in class and at one public reading.
General Education Code
PR-C
Instructor
Melisa Casumbal-Salazar