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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01, section 1

Fall 2023
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
In this highly generative class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2566.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
Creative writing is a method not just of expression, but of deep attention: thus we will begin our journey to the blank page by looking, with wonder and precision, at pages filled by such masters of craft as Cathy Park Hong, Robyn Schiff, Nathaniel Mackey, Ben Lerner, Miranda July, Mariana Enriquez, and Souvankham Thammavongsa. Our reading assignments, which will span poetry
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Fall 2020
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. Students will read a variety of texts, both
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 4

In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts

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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.02, section 2

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
The art of creative writing is also the art of being a witness to the world. In this class, we will learn what forms creative writing can take—focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction—and discover new ways to see the raw materials of our lives.We will exercise our imaginations through generative experiments and keeping an observation notebook; identify
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading and Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and comprehensive introduction to the workshop method. We will exploring the genres of poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build working knowledge on the craft of creative writing. Students will complete weekly writing
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Jenny Boully
Credits: 4
In this class, we will begin by investigating sound, music, image, and form in poetry and how these poetic elements are presented in fiction. From fiction, we will study narrative, character, plot, and setting. Finally, we will progress towards personal nonfiction, fusing the elements of our poetry and fiction investigations. We will read classical and contemporary texts from
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2527.01) (time updated as of 10/17/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
What makes a poem a poem as opposed to a piece of fiction or an essay? Does every essay have to “tell the truth”? What about fiction that is purely autobiographical? This class will look at the various genres of creative writing and think about how, where, and why we draw lines between these modes. We will begin by studying the basic elements of poetry (line, image, stanza),
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Annie DeWitt
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading and Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and comprehensive introduction to the workshop method. We will exploring the genres of poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build working knowledge on the craft of creative writing. Students will complete weekly writing
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01) (new faculty as of 8/22/2024

Fall 2024
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 4
The art of creative writing is also the art of being a witness to the world. In this class, we will learn what forms creative writing can take—focusing primarily on fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction—and discover new ways to see the raw materials of our lives.We will exercise our imaginations through generative experiments and keeping an observation notebook; identify
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Stuart Nadler
Credits: 4
This class will serve as a comprehensive introduction both to the craft of creative writing and also to the workshop method. Throughout the term, we will explore poetry, literary fiction, and creative non-fiction in order to build a working knowledge of the craft and to help students begin to find their way into their own narratives and poems. Every week class will feature
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2394.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course, intended for students who have not yet taken a Reading Writing course at Bennington, will serve as an intensive and rigorous introduction to the workshop method. We will experiment with various approaches to the craft of writing in three different genres: poetry, literary fiction, and creative nonfiction. Students will complete writing assignments every
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Fundamentals of Creative Writing — LIT2566.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am & WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 4

In an interview with the Paris Review in 1984, James Baldwin spoke of creative writing as a means of "finding out": "When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway." This is writing as a form of

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Fundamentals of Reading and Writing Poetry — LIT2323.01

Fall 2014
Instructor: mark wunderlich
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2
How are poems made? What are poems for? What is the relationship between music, movement, visual pattern, and poetry? What do we mean when we say something is "poetic?" In this course, students will find answers to these questions by reading poems, meeting and listening to visiting poets, writing their own poems, and writing and speaking critically about contemporary and
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Genesis — HIS2220.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of
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Genesis — HIS2220.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of
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Genesis — HIS2220.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
Genesis is the first book in a compilation known collectively as the Bible. It is a text of enormous literary value, and one of our earliest historical chronicles, providing foundational material for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Yet how many of us know what it actually says? How did it come together, what is the narrative, and how does it relate to the ideas and events of
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Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written, including the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the aubade, and the litany. Students will also be introduced to the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody, acquire a familiarity with writing in meter and using rhyme, and attempt traditional forms such as the
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Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2013
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various genres of poetry, including the narrative poem, the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the aubade, the list poem, and the erasure. Students will also be introduced to traditional prosody and acquire a familiarity with writing in meter, and will read poetry written in such traditional forms as the villanelle,
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Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Fall 2015
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written, possibly including the narrative poem, the elegy, the ode, the ekphrastic, the prose poem, the pastoral, the litany or list poem, the documentary poem, the conceptual poem, and the erasure. Students will also be introduced to the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody,
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Genres and Forms of Poetry — LIT4164.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Dumanis
Credits: 4
This course will closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly written. We will master the vocabulary and practice of traditional prosody, acquire a familiarity with writing in meter, and attempt such traditional forms as the villanelle, the sestina, the pantoum, the rondel, and the ghazal. We will also closely examine various modes in which poetry is commonly
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Getting the Story, Getting in Close: Longform Journalism in Conflict Zones — LIT2296.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Marguerite Feitlowitz
Credits: 2
In this course, we will read the work a range of long-form journalism--reporting that depends on deep research, cultural and linguistic immersion and/or reliance of interpreters, translators, and local guides; knowledge of history, geography, and politics; military embedments; and medical training. Expect to read Luke Mogelson ('07), Robin Wright, Dexter Filkins, Alma
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