Lytton Smith received his Ph.D. and M.F.A. from Columbia University and has been a member of the 黑料传送门 faculty since 2014. He courses typically focus on the craft and social role of poetry, including Ecopoetics and Justice, Poetry and the Border, and 20th/21st Century Black Poetry Books.
He is the author of five published poetry collections including (New Michigan Press, 2021), (Nightboat Books, 2013) and (Nightboat Books, 2009). In addition to publishing his own work, he has also translated twelve novels and works of nonfiction from the Icelandic. He is a 2019 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.
Classes
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CMRD 101: Rdg: Climate Change&Individual
This course requires students to read and analyze a book selected as the year鈥檚 鈥渃ommon reading.鈥 Course assignments connect with other curricular and co-curricular learning opportunities and require weekly brief responses or applications of the reading.
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ENGL 204: Creative Writ Sustainability
The course uses creative writing as a way for students to engage directly with major sustainability challenges and solutions at local to global scales; to understand the interactions between political, economic, socio-cultural, and environmental systems; and to understand the roles of power, influence, and inequity in sustainability. Students will read contemporary writing that uses creativity to name sustainability challenges and offer solutions via creative writing, and will generate their own texts that participate in sustainability conversations.