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Creative Writing
ENCW 4830	Advanced Poetry Writing I

January 2023 10163	001	WKS (3 Units)	Permission	15 / 12	Lisa Spaar	MoTuWeThFr 10:00am - 3:00pm	New Cabell Hall 211
	Admission to this course is by permission of instructor. Please request permission to enroll through SIS along with a brief explanation of your interest in the course. If you are a student in the Area Programs in Poetry Writing or Literary Prose, please indicate that as well. Please send 4 - 5 or your poems or a short passage of prose to LRS9E@virginia.edu. You can address any questions to Lisa Russ Spaar at LRS9E@virginia.edu
	We live in an age of easy and ubiquitous self-portrayal. Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Skype, YouTube, and other digital and cellular “galleries” allow a protean array of venues in which to post, curate, manipulate, filter, and remove visual images and verbal profiles of “the self” with what seems like a faster than real-time alacrity. This proliferation of self-portraiture is so rampant that it’s possible for viewers and readers to become inured to its magic, craft, and power. In this course, we will use self-portraiture as a lens to explore what we can learn from our human fascination with self-portrayal. We will investigate the self in poetry through manifold lenses, indirection, and what Anne Carson would call poetic “ruses." Although the ostensible subject is the writer, focusing our creative work on selfhood will allow us to explore the intention, too, of foregrounding the processes by and reasons why we make art.