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GH 101: Poetic Collaboration

Despite the lore of the author as a solitary figure, writers have always relied on and benefited from collaboration. Collaborative poetry has a long and vibrant history and is currently experiencing a recent resurgence. As a creative approach, collaborative writing involves challenging limited and limiting definitions of authorship, requires critical reading even as it reminds us of the important work of play, teaches some of the more intrinsic elements of craft, prompts self-reflection, foregrounds process over product, and fosters a sense of community and shared interest. In this course, we will explore collaborative writing through a variety of approaches, including collaborative poetry, ekphrasis, erasure, docupoetry, literary translation, and multi-disciplinary projects. As we recover from the isolation of the pandemic, and as we contend with the political and cultural divides of our time, we will turn to collaboration a crucial act of resistance and solidarity.

GH 101: Poetic Collaboration

Instructor: Dr. Amy Ash

Dr. Amy Ash is an Associate Professor of English at Indiana State University and Director of the Creative Writing Program. She serves as the faculty advisor for the Creative Writing Society and ISU’s award-winning student-run literary journal, Allusions. Dr. Ash holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New Mexico State University and a PhD from the University of Kansas. Her teaching and research interests include creative writing studies and pedagogy, contemporary poetry and poetics, 20th and 21st century American literature, collaborative writing, and hybrid genres. She is the author of The Open Mouth of the Vase, winner of the 2013 Cider Press Review Book Award and the 2016 Etchings Press Whirling Prize post-publication award for poetry. She is co-editor of Imaginative Teaching through Creative Writing: A User’s Guide for Secondary Classrooms (Bloomsbury, 2021). Her work has been published in various journals and anthologies, including Stirring: A Literary Collection, I-70 Review, and Erase the Patriarchy. Dr. Ash is a recipient of the College of Arts and Sciences Educational Excellence Award for Teaching and the Caleb Mills Distinguished Teaching Award.