Performing the Text: Mixed-genre writing and dissent

REVISED

Spring 2013 quarter

Faculty

David Wolach creative writing, poetics, aesthetics, media/performing arts

Fields of Study

cultural studies, theater and writing

Description

What does it mean to perform the text? What happens when genres collide? This creative writing program will bring together several terms often thought to be well-defined—including "poetry," "prose," "theater," "politics," and "essay"—and, through experiments in writing, reading, and collaborating, re-narrate their meanings and implications. Along the way we’ll investigate key concepts and texts in poets theater, guerilla poetry, and other forms of performance-based text, mining them to create our own individual and collaborative writings. During the quarter, our meetings will consist of weekly seminars, lectures, and "language labs"—times for brainstorming, rehearsing, and trying out language experiments.

Advertised Schedule

5-7p Wed, 4-6p Sat

Location

Olympia

Online Learning

Enhanced Online Learning

Books

Greener Store

Offered During

Evening and Weekend

Program Revisions