DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE:

Six-week online course features teaching modules, writing exercises, group activities, visual poetry storytelling, a short ethnographic project, and a final anthropological poetry project.

Participants meet once a week to explore basic anthropological ideas, methods, and topics. They will weave these in to create poems beyond borders that intersect with what it means to be human.

In-class prompts will encourage weekly writing exercises between classes so participants can work toward a final project.

For anthropologists, this workshop can help you do justice to your data—not leave behind significant insights, interactive moments, and emotive truths.

For general poets & poetry lovers, learn how to write poems from your own "field site" and engage your social world in new ways through your creative work. 

2027

WEDNESDAYS:
January 13, 20, 27 &
February 3, 10, 17

TIME:
9:00 a.m. MDT
5:00 p.m. CEST
6:30 p.m. Iran ST
8:30 p.m. India ST

PLATFORM: ZOOM

FEE: USD$500

What participants will gain in this workshop:
Learn about the field of anthropology and its subfields
Understand more about subgenre of anthropological poetry, especially ethnographic poetry and autoethnographic poetry
Develop ways of thinking, seeing, feeling like an anthropologist
Gain more understanding of poetry and power, such as in work about colonialism and decolonization
Understand poetry as revolt, witness, accompaniment, weapon, refusal, resilience, counternarrative, counter-archiving, invisible histories
See how poetry can be part of worldbuilding
Experience spaces of cross-cultural exchange
Envision the world as a family

Testimonial: 
"An extraordinary opportunity to discover how anthropological poetry works, how I can improve my writing in this genre, how it can be used not only for emotional and creative expression but also to create connections between people. It also helped me to reflect upon possible connections between poetry and public anthropology."
--Elizabeth Challinor
Researcher | CRIA - NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST

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Course Tutors

Christine Mejukah Weeber is a poet, editor, and instructor. She has graduate degrees in cultural anthropology and women's studies. Christine Mejukah is the author of two poetry chapbooks, In the Understory of Her Being and Sastrugi. Her work has appeared in the Wild Roof Journal, the Kyoto Journal, and numerous other publications. She served as an editor at SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine for 10 years and currently is a freelance editor at The Conversation.

Toiba Naseema is a poet-anthropologist, filmmaker, and editor. She has graduate degrees in mass communication and anthropology. She was the 2023 poet-in-residence at SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine. Previously, Toiba was an editor at the Danish Siddiqui Foundation and an international youth adviser with Wellcome Trust on mental health.

FEE: USD$500

VENMO:
@CHRISTINE-WEEBER

PAYPAL:
[email protected]
303-807-1194

Register by December 22, 2026
Sign up early to reserve your spot!