ASSIGNMENTS AND READINGS FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 27-NOVEMBER 2, 2008

For Monday, October 27, please read the Koch and Ashbery readings originally assigned for Friday, October, 24.

For Wednesday, October 29, please read all of the poems by Jorie Graham in the Norton Anthology.

Here are also some helpful links/articles on Graham:

Jorie Graham at the Academy of American Poets

Jorie Graham at the Poetry Foundation

Article on Jorie Graham at the literary journal Ploughshares

For Friday, October 31, please read the following in the Norton Anthology:

Poems by Susan Howe (p. 688)
Poems by Lynn Hejinian (p. 788)
Poems by Charles Bernstein (p. 909)
Charles Bernstein's essay on poetics, "Semblance" (p. 1112)

Here's additional information on Language Poetry:

A Brief Guide to Language Poetry at the Academy of American Poets

READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 20-26, 2008

On Monday, we discussed Berryman.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008: Please make sure you've read the assigned Frank O'Hara selections from the Norton Anthology (all poems, plus the essay "Personism" in the back of the anthology. Please also read all of the poems by Kenneth Koch in the anthology.

Friday, October 24, 2008: Please read all of the selections in the Norton Anthology by John Ashbery.

Useful Links/Additional Readings and Context on the New York School of Poets:

New York School, with accompanying links on individual authors and linked essays at the Academy of American Poets.

Your second modeling poem will be due on Monday, October 27. You may choose between either writing a Dream Song, in the style of John Berryman, or a Lunch Poem, in the style of Frank O'Hara. As with the last modeling assignment, please write up a 500-word analysis/discussion of your modeling, in which you discuss the style of the poet you're modeling from and the ways in which you attempted to imitate that particular style. Please post this to your blog on Monday, October 27, and also bring a hard copy to class. You are also responsible for submitting your regular round of blogging on Sunday, October 26, as regularly scheduled.

READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEK OF OCTOBER 6-12, 2008

Don't forget to blog! Blog postings for the week of September 28-October 5 will be due by midnight on Sunday, October 5.

For Monday, October 6, please make sure you're current/caught up on the Elizabeth Bishop readings (see prior post).

For Wednesday, October 8, please read all of the poems/selections in the Norton anthology on Randall Jarrell and John Berryman.

Here are some links on Jarrell and Berryman to give you additional information/context:

Randall Jarrell at The Academy of American Poets

Randall Jarrell at Modern American Poetry

John Berryman at The Academy of American Poets

John Berryman at Modern American Poetry

Additional Recommended Articles on Jarrell and Berryman can be located in Project Muse, from the USD library research databases: http://www.usd.edu/library/research/ - On this page, scroll down to the listing of databases, click on Project Muse, search for Randall Jarrell or John Berryman, and the following articles will come right up in full-text format:

"Sentimental Education: Randall Jarrell Among the Women," by Gail Mcdonald, Modernism/Modernity, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1998), pp. 1-21.

"Public Dreams: Berryman, Celebrity, and the Culture of Confession," by David Haven
Blake," American Literary History, Vol. 13, No. 4 (2001), pp. 716-736.

For Friday, October 10: Visiting poet Bruce Covey, from Emory University will be reading/talking to our class!! Please also plan on attending Bruce Covey's poetry reading at 3:30 p.m. in the Concert Hall of the National Music Museum!!!