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dy |
Date |
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M |
1/12/2009 |
Introduction |
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W |
1/14/2009 |
Whitman and Dickinson
Tools
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F |
1/16/2009 |
Realism and Naturalism
- Historical overview: Twentieth Century American Poetry
(TCAP) 2-10
- Sarah Cleghorn TCAP 75-76
- Dunbar TCAP 42-45
- Stephen Crane TCAP intro 10, "Man Said to Universe,"
"A Man adrift" 15+
History and Context:
Modern movements
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(reading
sheet--we'll do one in class) |
| 2 |
M |
1/19/2009 |
MLK Day no class |
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W |
1/21/2009 |
- Frost TCAP 47-51;
- After Apple Picking 54; Mending Wall 62; Birches 64; Oven
Bird 66; Fire and Ice 67; Design 71; Directive 73
- Frost essays: Poets on the Art of Poetry (POAP)
6-12
Context:
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Ford minutes |
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F |
1/23/2009 |
Modernism: Difficulty
- TCAP historical overview 82-98
- Gertrude Stein TCAP 103-6
- Stein POAP "Composition as Explanation"
20-27
- Cummings TCAP 288 "Anyone lived", "My
father moved" 195
- T.S. Eliot TCAP 248-251
- Eliot "Lovesong" TCAP 251
Context:
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Glenn minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| 3 |
M |
1/26/2009 |
- Eliot "Wasteland" TCAP 259
- Eliot "Reflections on Vers Libre" POAP 107-111
Discussion of reading sheets:
Context:
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Kath minutes |
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W |
1/28/2009 |
Modernism : Imagism
- Lowell "Some Imagist Poets" POAP 13-18
- Lowell TCAP "Patterns" 99
- Williams TCAP "Aux Imagistes" 146; Danse Ruse
147; "Spring and All" 153; "This is Just
to Say" 158; "Red Wheelbarrow" 156
- Pound TCAP (all poems on 177)
Context:
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May minutes |
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F |
1/30/2009 |
- Stevens "Noble Rider and the Sound of Words"
POAP 30-45
- Stevens TCAP "Snow Man" 122; "Sunday Morning"
124; "13 ways" 131; "Evening without Angels"
134 "Postcard from the Volcano" 136
Context
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Temple minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| 4 |
M |
2/2/2009 |
- Harlem Renaissance, TCAP 304-347 (Read Intro and 1 poem
by each author)
- Hughes, "Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"
POAP 146-152
Context:
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Tesseneer minutes |
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W |
2/4/2009 |
New Criticism
- Eliot "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
POAP 111
- Allen Tate TCAP "Ode" 427
- Warren TCAP 433-436 (through "Evening Hawk")
Context:
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Carpenter minutes |
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F |
2/6/2009 |
Modern Alternatives
- Historical overview TCAP 350-360
- Millay TCAP 384-386 (all poems on 386), "What Lips"
388
- Bogan TCAP 392-4; Medusa 394; Cassandra 396
- Bogan "Springs of Poetry" POAP 119
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Harris minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| 5 |
M |
2/9/2009 |
Mid-Century Poets
- Historical overview TCAP 440-448
- Roethke TCAP "My Papa's Waltz" 451; "Elegy"
451; "North American Sequence" 454-460
- Bishop TCAP "The Map 463; "At the Fishhouses"
464
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Ford Minutes |
| |
W |
2/11/2009 |
- Jarrell TCAP "Death of the Ball turret Gunner"
513
- Kees "Robinson" and "Aspects of Robinson"
521,2
- Berryman TCAP "Dream Songs" 509-510
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Glenn minutes |
| |
F |
2/13/2009 |
Today: required online
discussion (attendance taken-must participate by Sunday
morning at noon)
(directions
for registering and logging on)
- Robert Hayden TCAP "Middle Passage" 488
- Gwendolyn Brooks TCAP 542-9 (all)
- Brooks POAP "New Black 220
Context:
Audio (note: seems to work better in Firefox than Explorer)
Short Essay
|
Kath minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| 6 |
M |
2/16/2009 |
Open Form
- Historical Overiew 572-9
- Zukofsky "Song for the Year's End," 593; "Starglow"
594
- Niedecker "Autumn Sequence" 589-90
- Ginsberg "Howl" 649
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May minutes |
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W |
2/18/2009 |
- Olson "Maximus" 607
- Duncan "Temple" 615"This Place" 617
- Creeley "I know a Man" 641
- Snyder "Riprap" 657
- Levertov "The Ache of Marriage" 625
Lecture by Newton Smith |
Temple minutes |
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F |
2/20/2009 |
Postwar "New" Formalism
- Hitorical Overview 664-671
- Wilbur "Love Calls Us" 682; "Cottage Street"
682
- Dickey "Sheep Child" 690
- Van Duyn "Earth Tremors" 677
- Justice "Psalm and Lament" 720
- Justice POAP "Meters and Memory" 250-5
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Tesseneer minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| 7 |
M |
2/23/2009 |
Feminism
- Kumin "End of the Affair" 728
- Sexton "Her Kind" 746; Ballad
- Rich "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" 754; "Living
in Sin" 755
- Plath "Blackberrying" 765; "Lady Lazarus"
768
- Rich "POAP "When We dead Awaken" 312-323
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Carpenter minuts |
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W |
2/25/2009 |
American Internationalism
- Historical Overview TCAP 776-784
- Ashberry "Some Trees" 806
- Merwin "For a Coming Extinction" 812; For the
Anniversary of My Death" 812
- Wright "Saint Judas," 818; "Autumn Begins"
818; "A Blessing" 819; "Lying in a Hammock"
819
Context
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Harris minutes |
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F |
2/27/2009 |
- Levine "Animals Are passing" 822; "They
Feed They Lion" 824
- Strand "Eating Poetry" 827
- Simic "Fear" 834
- Tate "The Lost Pilot" 837
- Simic POAP "Negative Capability" 343-9
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Midterm
Ford minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| |
M |
3/2/2009 |
SPRING BREAK |
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W |
3/4/2009 |
"" |
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F |
3/6/2009 |
"" |
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| 8 |
M |
3/9/2009 |
Regionalism 842-7
- Chappell "Televangelist" 827
- Momaday "Simile", "Carriers" 868
- Espaillat Bra 857
- Clifton "Homage" 874
- Reed "I am a cowboy" 881
- Kooser "The Blind" 892
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Paper
Instructions
Glenn minutes
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| |
W |
3/11/2009 |
Contemporary Voices
- Overview 896-906
- Hass "Meditation" 913
- Collins "The Dead"
- Gluck "Mock Orange" 927
- Ryan "Bestiary" 939
- Gluck POAP "Disruption" 378-386
Context:
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Kath minutes
MIDTERM DUE |
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F |
3/13/2009 |
- Forche "Colonel" 975
- Song "Beauty and Sadness" 1025
- Santos "Perfect Dress" 1036
- Lim "Learning to Love America" 935
- Lim POAP "The Scarlet Brewer" 400-404
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May minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| 9 |
M |
3/16/2009 |
- Dove and Nelson POAP "A Black Rainbow" 466-469
- Nelson "The Ballad of Aunt Geneva" 944
- Komunyakaa "Starlight Scope" 954
- Dove (all) 992-995
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Temple minutes |
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W |
3/18/2009 |
- Schnackenberg "Supernatural Love" 1009
- Doty "Fog" 1002
- Graham "Over and Over Stitch" 983
- Fulton "What I Like"
- Fulton POAP "Of Formal, Free, and Fractal Verse"
469-479
Context
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Tesseneer minutes |
| |
F |
3/20/2009 |
Lit Festival Writers: Christopher
Carrier and Brian
Brodeur |
Carpenter minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| 10 |
M |
3/23/2009 |
Exaltation (Most readings come from this book
or online from now one)
Received Forms:
- Sestina: The End Game 290-297
- Sonnet 297-308
Context:
- Sestina Links
- A couple of other great sonnets
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Harris minutes |
| |
W |
3/25/2009 |
Received Forms:
- Villanelle 314-325
- Ghazal 210-217
- Pantoum 254-262
- Rondeaux 279-290
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Ford minutes |
| |
F |
3/27/2009 |
- Accentual Verse "15-24
- Syllabics 24-32
|
Glenn minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| 11 |
M |
3/30/2009 |
Lit festival |
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W |
4/1/2009 |
Lit festival |
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| |
F |
4/3/2009 |
- Iambic Meter 39-46
- Blank Verse 46-52
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responses due from lit festival |
| 12 |
M |
4/6/2009 |
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W |
4/8/2009 |
BREAK -- NO CLASS |
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F |
4/10/2009 |
"" |
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| 13 |
M |
4/13/2009 |
Popular Forms
Context
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Kath minutes |
| |
W |
4/15/2009 |
Popular forms
- Blues 188-198
- Hip-Hop 223-228
- Rap 272-279
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May minutes |
| |
F |
4/17/2009 |
- Litany Poem 242-247
- List poem 359-366
|
Temple minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| 14 |
M |
4/20/2009 |
- Procedural Poetry 366-379
- Beyond Found Poetry 352-359
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Tesseneer minutes |
| |
W |
4/22/2009 |
- Predetermined Avant-Garde Forms 400-413
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Carpenter minutes
PAPER DUE |
| |
F |
4/24/2009 |
Performance Poetry 341-352
- Slams and Slam Poetics
- Context
|
Harris minutes
(2 reading sheets
due) |
| 15 |
M |
4/27/2009 |
Language
Poetry (and the politics
of language Poetry)
|
Adams minutes |
| |
W |
4/29/2009 |
Gioia, "Can Poetry Matteer" POAP
437-453
Poet Laureate of the US
Poet Laureate of North Carolina
US Poet
Laureate site (US Library of congress)
Miscellaneous Links
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Adams minutes |
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F |
5/1/2009 |
Review
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All Reading Sheets due |
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FINAL EXAM 471: Wed., May 6, 3 - 5:30 PM |
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FINAL EXAM 390 (mwf morning section) Mon, May
4, 3 - 5:30 PM |
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FINAL EXAM 390 (afternoon class) Friday May 8,
8:30-11 AM |
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