READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR WEEK OF NOVEMBER 17-23, 2008

Important!!! Don't forget that rough drafts of your final papers are due in class on Monday, November 24!!! Rough drafts are worth 100 points, which will be accorded on the basis of completion (roughness is expected and absolutely fine, but I want to see a full-length rough draft, in other words) and timely submission.

This week's blog submission on Sunday, November 16, will be your final official round of blog posting. You may submit extra-credit blog posts on November 23, 30, and December 7 to either replace missing blog posts, or simply for extra credit.

Here are your readings for this week.

For Monday, November 17, please read the following selections from the Norton anthology:
Amiri Baraka (p. 632)
Yusef Komunyakaa (p. 858)
Ai (p. 875)
Thylias Moss (p. 999)

For Wednesday, November 19, please read the following selections from the Norton anthology:
Marilyn Chin (p. 1013)
Li-Young Lee (p. 1039)
Louise Erdrich (p. 1004)
Sherman Alexie (p. 1045)

For Friday, November 21, please read the following selections from the Norton anthology:
Lorna Dee Cervantes (p. 1954)
Dionisio D. Martinez (p. 1030)
Marilyn Hacker (p. 811)
Mark Doty (p. 993)

READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 9-15, 2008

Don't forget to blog, and don't forget that Modeling Poem #3 will be due on Friday, November 14 (see guidelines in post below).

Here are the readings for this week.

For Monday, November 10, please read the following selections:
Poems by Charles Olson (p. 1, Norton anthology)
"Projective Verse" by Charles Olson (p. 1053, Norton anthology)
Poems by Robert Duncan (p. 150, Norton anthology)
Poems by Robert Creeley (p. 325, Norton anthology)

For Wednesday, November 12 and Friday, November 14, please read the following selections:
Poems by Allen Ginsberg (p. 334)
Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (p. 162)
Poems by Gary Snyder (p. 534)
"Notes on Having Finally Recorded Howl," by Allen Ginsberg (p. 1074)

Additional LInks:

A Brief Guide to the Black Mountain School, at the Academy of American Poets

A Brief Guide to the San Francisco Renaissance at the Academy of American Poets

A Brief Guide to the Beat Poets at the Academy of American Poets

READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 2-8, 2008

For Wednesday, November 5, please read the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry selections as outlined in the post below.

For Friday, November 7, please read the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry selections as outlined in the post below.

Your third and final modeling poem will consist of writing an experimental poem using one of the ideas from Charles Bernstein's list of poetry experiments, located here: http://writing.upenn.edu/bernstein/experiments.html

Your analysis should provide a 500-word discussion about how your experimental poem/experimental poetry challenges "mainstream" notions about language, poetry, art, and ideology, and whether or not you believe these challenges are, ultimately, successful.