The seminar will explore what I’ll refer to as the “fractured” or “dislocated I/eye” in poetry and CNF personal narrative. Positing that we can view personal pronouns as the center of signs, of significations and meanings (cultural; personal; political; racial; ability; class; gender, etc.), they then become a nexus for some of the most pressing concerns in creative writing, for example, issues of “truth,” authority, aesthetics, positionality, etc. Personal pronouns can pluck the strings of the heart, trigger synapsis in the brain, and rearrange the geography of the nervous system, but where does the I/eye sleep? What clothes do they wear? What did they eat for breakfast? What languages do they speak? How much money does the I/eye have?  Where do they reside in the country and in the suburbs and in the cities? What “real” and imaginative worlds do they inhabit? This workshop will be an exercise in experimental writing, centered on interrogations and conscious dislocations of the I/eye. Texts for the workshop are ones in which the authors consciously challenge the idea of a fixed or identifiable, culturally empowered “I” that can be “universally” translated or understood.