African American Women, Sensuality and Sound
Graduate Poetry Writing Workshop, 522

Professor Tracie Morris
Tmorris4@emich.edu
602D Pray-Harrold

The purpose of this course is to workshop the relationship between page-based and sound-based text. We will be looking at one specific example of this relationship, through the performative utterances of Black women poetically and in some cases, musically. The interpretation of some of these sounds involve sensuality and this consideration gives us insight into how different vocal modes, sounds and tones are understood by the listener and reader. This dovetails into assumptions about the individual speakers’ voices as well as typifications of groups. In addition to the syllabus below, I will be adding materials as needed at my discretion.

The course will emphasize student workshopping with some readings and listening sessions from the professor’s private collection. Students will be encouraged to present their own work and each student will also be required to give a graduate-level presentation of their own research-based topic from class discussion. In addition to the presentation before the class each student will be required to hand in a final 16 page poetry collection as well as perform a live reading or recording on CD.

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