Poetry at the End of the World

In this era of global environmental distress—what we are growing accustomed to calling the Anthropocene—many poets have turned away from the consolations of pastoral optimism in favor of uncertainty, entanglement, and frank reckonings with what the degradation of nature has cost.

We read and discuss poetry by Tommy Pico, Ada Limón, Jorie Graham, Wanda Coleman, and others who are actively revising our assumptions about the nonhuman world.

This course may interest not only poetry enthusiasts but students of the environmental humanities more broadly.