Week of August 31
9.4 Thursday First Day of Classes / Introduction to Course
Week of September 7
Renaissance Poetry and Poetics
9.8 Monday Philip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy (PDF also on Blackboard)
9.11 Thursday Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (PDF also on Blackboard)
Week of September 14
The Romantics
9.15 Monday Wordsworth, “Advertisement” and “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (handout)
9.18 Thursday Selected Poems of Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Keats (handout)
Week of September 21
19th Century American Poetics
9.22 Monday Emerson, The Poet (handout)
9.25 Thursday Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Week of September 28
9.29 Monday Dickinson, Selected Poems (handout)
Some Modernisms: Imagism and Objectivism
10.2 Thursday Pound, “A Retrospect,” Zukofsky, “A Statement for Poetry” (handout), Stein’s Tender Buttons
Week of October 5
10.6 Monday Selected WC Williams, HD, Niedecker (handout)
Some Postmodernisms: Beat Poetry and the New York School
10.9 Monday Ginsberg, Howl
Week of October 12
10.13 Monday COLUMBUS DAY / UNIVERSITY CLOSED
10.16 Thursday O’Hara “Personism” and Selected Poems (handout)
Week of October 19
10.20 Monday Koch, and Ashbery, selected poems, Mayer, From “Midwinter Day,” Berrigan, from “The Sonnets” (handout)
The Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts, and Contemporary African-American Poetry
10.23 Thursday Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”; Baraka, “Expressive Art,” “Hunting Is Not Those Heads on the Wall,” and “State / Meant” (Handout)
Week of October 26
10.27 Monday Hughes, Cullen, Clifton, et al. (handout)
10.30 Thursday Kocher, Domina Un/Blued and Kearney, The Black Automaton
Week of November 2
Latin@ Poetics Then and Now
11.3 Monday Selections from Anzaldúa, La Frontera, Rïos Cervantes, et al (handout)
11.6 Thursday Martinez, Heredities US Latin@ Voices
Week of November 9
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poetry
11.10 Monday Selections from L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (handout)
11.13 Thursday Hejinian, My Life; Armantrout, Money Shot
Week of November 16
Asian-American / Avant-Garde
11.17 Monday Yu, “Asian American Poetry in the 1970s” (handout)
11.20 Thursday Gambito, Delivered; Liu, Of Thee I Sing
Week of November 23
Feminist Poetics and Feminist Poetries
11.24 Monday Notley, Descent of Alette,
11.27 Thursday THANKSGIVING / NO CLASS
Week of November 30
12.1 Monday Rich, “When We Dead Awaken,” (handout); Fraser, “Tradition of Marginality,” (handout); Julie Carr, Rag
Flarf and Conceptual Poetry
12.4 Thursday Notes on Conceptualisms (Free PDF proof) / Goldsmith, “Flarf is Dionysus. Conceptual Writing is Apollo”
Week of December 7
12.8 Monday Gordon, The Source; selections of Mesmer, Mohammad, Gordon (handout)
12.11 Thursday READING DAY, NO CLASS