I’ve been putting together a syllabus for an undergraduate poetry workshop, and I decided I wanted to teach a section on speculative poetry. It’s something I’ve been interested in recently, and want to learn a lot more about. (Suggestions?) Anyway, I was excited to see that the Pulitzer Prize was given to a young, black woman poet writing speculative poetry earlier this year, and so I got Tracy K. Smith’s Life on Mars. I haven’t read any of her earlier work, […]

Categories: Poetry, Reading Journal, Teaching • Tags: Life on Mars, poetry, poetry syllaubs, Pulitzer Prize, science fiction, science fiction poetry, speculative poetry, teaching, teaching poetry, Tracy K. Smith