The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is a school of

Naropa University Naropa University is a private university in Boulder, Colorado. Founded in 1974 by Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, it is named for the 11th-century Indian Buddhist sage Naropa, an abbot of Nalanda. The university describes itself a ...

, located in

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. It was founded in 1974 by

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and

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, as part of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s 100-year experiment. Its programs consist of a BA in creative writing and literature, a residential MFA in creative writing and poetics, an MFA in creative writing, the undergraduate Core Writing Seminars and the Summer Writing Program. The Kerouac School states that among its aims is to bring forward "new questions that both invigorate and challenge the current dialogue in writing today".

Curriculum

Students at the Kerouac School are encouraged to take classes across "an open genre curriculum", enabling a personal development of writing process and style, and claims this "challenges the notion of safe or generic works and creates a space for radical exploration and experimentation". While cultivating contemplative and experimental writing practices, the school emphasizes original, innovative approaches to literary arts. In '' When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School'' (2004),*Kashner, Sam. ''

When I Was Cool ''When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School'' is Sam Kashner's autobiographical account of his experience as the first student at the

: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School''. HarperCollins, 2004. . Sam Kashner wrote an account of his time as the first student of the school. The Summer Writing program at the school gathers over sixty guest faculty to an internationally renowned colloquium of workshops, lectures, and readings. The aim of the program is to foster "an intensely creative environment for students to develop their writing projects in conversation with a community of writers". The school currently has three fully funded fellowships: the Anne Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, and

Anselm Hollo Anselm Paul Alexis Hollo (12 April 1934 – 29 January 2013) was a Finnish poet and translator. He lived in the United States from 1967 until his death in January 2013. Hollo published more than forty titles of poetry in the United Kingdom and ...

Graduate Fellowships, awarded annually to Writing and poetics students in graduate instructor positions.

External links

Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
on Naropa University site
Official Blog

Naropa Poetics Audio Archives
at Archive.org * Anne Waldman, Marilyn Webb, (Eds
''Talking poetics from Naropa Institute: annals of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics''
Volume 1, Taylor & Francis, 1979, * Anne Waldman, Marilyn Webb, (Eds
''Talking poetics from Naropa Institute: annals of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics''
Volume 2, Taylor & Francis, 1979,

References

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