Creative Nonfiction and Poetry Workshop
ENGLISH CNPR
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Course Information
Description
In this workshop-based class, students will write poems, creative nonfiction essays, and hybrid works to explore how truth, as both lived experience and external reference, moves in various ways: objective and literal, emotional, political, and personal, narrative and expository, lyrical and morphing. We'll read essays and poems by writers who famously cross and blend genres: Ross Gay, Mary Ruefle, Adrienne Rich, Tarfia Faizullah, Gregory Orr, Kaveh Akbar, Mary Oliver, Claudia Rankine, Ocean Vuong, and Maggie Nelson, among others. This class is open to all levels
Class Notes
Admission by application only. For information on specific application requirements and instructions, please see the full course listing on the English Department website.
DEADLINE: For all Spring 2027 workshops, applications will open by Wednesday, October 21 and are due via Submittable by 11:59pm on Saturday, November 7. Students will be notified of admissions decisions by 5:00pm ET on Tuesday, November 10. Workshops will meet the first week of classes.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
