CCS Writing & Literature Faculty Michelle Grue Featured in The Current, The Santa Barbara Independent

Faculty Michelle Grue discusses poetry, students, and racism with two notable publications

The College of Creative Studies (CCS) Writing & Literature (W&L) Faculty Michelle Grue takes center stage in an illuminating feature in UC Santa Barbara’s The Current, republished by The Santa Barbara Independent. Grue provides insight on her recently published poetry through reflections on her imagination, the CCS W&L student experience, and racism in America. 

“My students increasingly come to [UC Santa Barbara] already quite aware of the role of fiction and poetry to comment on and shape culture and politics. My role is to expose them to more examples, to provide questions for them to ponder that they otherwise might not have considered, and to create an environment in which they can feel safe to write about the hard things happening in their lives and the world — but also the beautiful things, too.”

—Michelle Grue, CCS W&L Faculty interview with The Current

Read the original article in The Current. Read the republished article in The Santa Barbara Independent.