https://www.amandagunn.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-12-20 https://www.amandagunn.com/about daily 1.0 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603be5e7543f684c561a7fb9/34076273-a8d2-4ce3-a68f-6e7a08dc2783/Amanda+Gunn+Author+Photo+10.jpg https://www.amandagunn.com/work daily 0.75 2025-09-07 https://www.amandagunn.com/work/fellowshipsandawards monthly 0.5 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603be5e7543f684c561a7fb9/1616374996020-2A94CF20ZFQWUWQX1336/marko-blazevic-Z2s0-zSe3TI-unsplash.jpg Work - Fellowships + Awards https://www.amandagunn.com/work/teaching monthly 0.5 2025-09-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603be5e7543f684c561a7fb9/1614549325609-KENAUFSY3G5RRX5AR585/service-rbc-rbpe-rbpe33-rbpe339-33901800-001dr.jpg Work - Teaching - Reading + Writing Black Poetry What is Black poetry? How can we read—and write—in ways that help us understand the formal strategies employed by Black poets in the pursuit of their deeper material? This course explores the power moves in Black poetics in the context of the Black Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and other moments of artistic flourishing and intellectual inquiry. Readings by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni, Lucille Clifton, Rita Dove, Natasha Trethewey, Terrance Hayes, Claudia Rankine, and Danez Smith. Together the class will create a weekly provocation: a catalogue of the formal activity found in the primary reading that will then serve as a basis for their own poetic experimentation. Critical discussion and workshop will structure our days, and students will present final projects on Black poets not on the syllabus writing in any era or style. Taught at the Johns Hopkins Center for Africana Studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603be5e7543f684c561a7fb9/404aaeb5-cfb0-424e-92f9-a27c06db01a0/Screenshot+2025-09-07+at+3.08.12%E2%80%AFPM.png Work - Teaching - Junior Tutorial. Form + Freedom: Exploring the Poetic Experiment Poets shape their work using a variety of formal methods: sound play or “music,” graphics and typography, as well as syntactical arrangements and rearrangements, testing the limits of language in the service of lyric expression or the unfolding of narrative. This course examines how poets write, revise, and “try things out.” Using close reading, we explore the playfulness of formal experimentation in poetry, and the ways in which poets use sonic, visual, and dictional strategies for meaning-making. We examine both canonical and contemporary poets who employ or push back against received form, asking: How do various methods of sound play create emotional resonances? What determines the poetic line, and how do different strategies of line formation affect how we move through the poem? How do various syntactical adjacencies produce disruption or create “heat”? Finally, we explore how poets use all of these tools to experiment with voice, asking: How do poets use formal strategies to speak for themselves—and speak for others? Taught in the Harvard University Department of English. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/603be5e7543f684c561a7fb9/1614627391375-HGMK97A6DKRVETJBE5Y5/Jamesbaldwin.jpg Work - Teaching - Introduction to Fiction + Poetry, Part One An introduction to basic strategies in the writing of poetry and fiction, with readings by Joyce, Woolf, Baldwin, Munro, Garcia Marquez, Donne, Bishop, Yeats, Komunyakaa, Tretheway, and others. Students learn the elements of the short story and try their hand at a variety of forms: realist, fantastical, experimental. They also study the basic poetic forms and meters, from the ballad to the sonnet, iambic pentameter to free verse. Students compose short stories and poems and workshop them in class. 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