February 2
Neil Gaiman, “September 27th, 2021”
Ariel Francisco, “On Seeing a Photo of an Octopus in a Parking Garage,” “Ruins of Earliest Church in America Discovered in Florida,” & “Don’t Ever Come to Florida” (from A Sinking Ship Is Still a Ship)
Maxine Hong Kingston, “On Memory, Meditation, and Magic” (Interview with Bill Moyers)

February 9
Salesses, Preface, “Pure Craft Is a Lie,” & “What Is Craft? (25 Thoughts)”
Paragraphs: Tracey Thorn and Questlove

February 16
Sigmund Freud, “Creative Writers and Daydreaming”
N. Katherine Hayles, “Interplays Betweeen Nonconscious Cognition and Consciousness,” from Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Unconscious
Questlove, “The Spark,” from Creative Quest

February 23
Workshop: Playing with a Fact: Paragraphs (In-Class: Kaz, Julie, Mehdi, Aly; Online: Catherine, Lucy, Christine, Fin)
Ross Gay, “Writing By Hand,” “The Do-Over,” “Nota Bene” (from The Book of Delights)

March 2
Tracey Thorn, “Boys’ Games,” from My Rock ‘n Roll Friend
Questlove, Introduction, “1979: An Idea Runs Wild,” & “Majoring in E-Minor,” from Music Is History
Salesses, #34, pp. 211-216
Workshop: Playing with a Fact: Sentences (In-Class: Catherine, Lucy, Christine, Fin; Online: Kaz, Julie, Mehdi, Aly)

March 9
Salesses, “Audience, Theme, and Purpose” & “Redefining Craft Terms”–Salesses MFA Program event, 7 PM

March 16
Salesses, “An Example from East Asian and Asian American Literature”
Workshop: Playing with a Fact: Sentences (In-Class: Kaz, Julie, Mehdi, Catherine; Online: Aly, Lucy, Christine, Fin)

March 23
Virginia Woolf, Excerpt from Moments of Being, pp. 71-73
Siri Hustvedt, Excerpt from The Shaking Woman; or a History of My Nerves, pp. 88-90
Julia Kristeva, Excerpts from Revolution in Poetic Language, pp. 25-30 & 43-45
Workshop: Playing with a Fact: Paragraphs (In-Class: Aly, Lucy, Christine, Fin; Online: Kaz, Julie, Mehdi, Catherine)

March 30
Toni Morrison, “The Site of Memory”
2 Workshops: Lucy, Aly

April 6
Kazim Ali, “There Are More Cells in One Human Body than There are Stars in the Universe”
2 Workshops: Mehdi, Catherine

April 13
Lulu Miller, “A Boy with His Head in the Stars” & “A Prophet on an Island,” from Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life
2 Workshops: Christine, Julie

April 20
Spring Break

April 27
Christopher Isherwood, “Why Write at All?”
Neil Gaiman, “September 27th, 2021”
2 Workshops: Kaz, Fin

May 4
Draft workshops

May 11
Draft workshops