'Is this how it's supposed to work?':Poetry as a radical technology in L2 Creative Writing classrooms

摘要

What psychic processes exist when a poem transmits into a non-native language? In acquiring a speaking position, L2 proto-poets participate in processes somewhat similar to making L1 poems, and yet particular pressures exist: how to feel like ourselves in a language we do not quite feel at home in? In this article, I propose a suite of strategies for teaching poems to non-native English-users, in order to promote an emergent Creative Writing (ESL) pedagogy in which lexical, systemic, and creative knowledge is advanced.