Poetry and Childhood

Poetry and Childhood is an Interdisciplinary Arts course taught by Rachel Conrad.

This course requires instructor permission.

Course Description
In this advanced seminar we will consider questions of power, perspective, and experience regarding children and adults, examine works in poetry (primarily 20th century English and American poetry) that take up ideas about children and childhood, and explore poetry-writing in relation to thinking about children and childhood. Our goal will be to balance attention to questions about ideas with a consideration of questions about creative form. Assignments will encompass critical reading, analytic writing, and creative writing. Students will work on their own poetry writing as well as learn about methods for supporting young people?s writing of poetry. Instructor Permission.