Units: 4
Hours: Seminar, 3 hours; extra reading, 1 hour; outside research, 1 hour; written work, 1 hour
Catalog page 213
Prerequisites: graduate standing
Description: Examines the poetry of crises and witness written by poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries from America and around the world. Topics may include war; genocide; religious, ethnic, and political persecution; exile; imprisonment; ecological degradation; and domestic and urban violence in the United States.