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Winning Over the Haters: Fostering Student Appreciation for Poetry
Friday, March 25, 2022
10:35 am to 11:50 am
Time and time again, undergraduates—even those with a self-professed interest in literature—will come to creative writing classes claiming they don’t “get” or care for poetry. How do we engage students in a genre they’re certain they don’t like or understand? On this panel, professors will discuss strategies across a range of university courses detailing how they open students’ minds to poetry and what lessons, prompts, and activities have helped foster a love for poetry among their students.
Participants
Jennifer Popa is a short story writer, essayist, and occasional poet. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Gannon University, where she’s working on a collection of short stories and a novel.
Lindsay Tigue is the author of System of Ghosts, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Eastern New Mexico University.
Paisley Rekdal is the author, most recently, of Appropriate: A Provocation and Nightingale. A Guggenheim fellow and Utah's poet laureate, she teaches at the University of Utah, where she edits the web archive project Mapping Literary Utah.
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award. He has received a Pushcart and a NEA fellowship. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence.
Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the poetry collection Machete and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways. He teaches at Rice University and at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
