Creative Writing
Undergraduate Seminar
Tu 2:10-4PM
Plant people are in our midst: they covet plants, grow them, and obsess over them. We call plant people green thumbs. They tend gardens; sniff herbs; make poultices; take cuttings. Plant people risk life and limb in pursuit of plants or become plant-like themselves. They tire of human ways and root in place, preferring the company of trees. As people can become plant-like, plants can also appear people-like, as sentient, sovereign beings who should be addressed with the proper pronouns. These plants have the power to act upon the world of people, and not always benignly. Finally, plant people can be everyday people like you and me, who consume and incorporate plants into our bodies, often without thought or awareness. In this fiction seminar, we will read all about plant people: stories about plant obsessives, plant witnesses, plant actors, and plant consumers.
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