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The Craft of Poetry: Featured Syllabi |
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Poems from Nature |
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Course: Poems from Nature
Instructor: Camille Dungy
Description: This course investigates the roots, opportunities, and restrictions of some of the current conventions employed in writing about the natural world. Through careful reading, critical and creative responses, and discussion, students approach some of the many things "nature" can teach us.
Sample Texts: Book of Dog by Cleopatra Mathis; Apple Trees at Olema by Robert Hass; The Arcadia Project, edited by Joshua Corey and G. C. Waldrep; The New Collected Poems of Wendell Berry; Indios by Linda Hogan; EcoPoetry Anthology, edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura Gray; To See the Earth Before the End of the World by Ed Roberson; Many Ways to Say It by Eva Saulitis
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Writing Poetry in Traditional Forms |
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Course: English 307: Writing Poetry in Traditional Forms
Instructor: Ronald Wallace
Description: An exploration of poetic forms—including free verse, the sonnet, terza rima, rimas dissolutas, the sestina, the villanelle, the ballade, the canzone, and others. This course is guided by creative writing assignments with an emphasis on the various uses of prosody.
Sample Texts: Strong Measures, edited by Philip Dacey and David Jauss; The Land of Cockaigne by Ed Ochester; The Uses of Adversity by Ronald Wallace; Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem: Guide to Writing Poetry by Wendy Bishop
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Black Radical Poetry |
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Course: Black Radical Poetry: From African American Modernism to African American Experimentalism
Instructor: Dawn Lundy Martin
Description: A "readings course" for writers, this syllabus focuses on the black radical poetic tradition from Modernism to the contemporary, with a particular emphasis on American writers.
Sample Texts: Selected Poems by Langston Hughes; Cane by Jean Toomer; Harlem Gallery & Other Poems by Melvin B. Tolson; Blacks by Gwendolyn Brooks; Local History by Erica Hunt; Narrative in the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man by Ronaldo Wilson; Zong! by M. NourbeSe Phillip
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Metaphor in Literature |
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Course: Metaphor in Literature
Instructor: Matthew Zapruder
Description: This seminar course is a collective exploration of metaphor in literature. Students read and discuss how metaphor functions within key texts, with the goal of understanding how metaphors shape the way we read literature, experience other forms of art, and understand the world.
Sample Texts: Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson; Harmonium by Wallace Stevens; Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; The Mooring of Starting Out by John Ashbery; The Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones Reader by Amiri Baraka; Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson; Indeed I Was Pleased with the World and The Most of It by Mary Ruefle
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Modern American Poetry: the Objectivists |
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Course: Modern American Poetry: the Objectivists
Instructor: Elaine Equi
Description: An overview of the Objectivist poets whose ideas resonate with contemporary movements such as Black Mountain, Language Poetry, and Conceptualism. This course takes a look at the relationships between speech and music, stillness and motion, and popular and intellectual culture.
Sample Texts: Anew: Complete Shorter Poetry by Louis Zukofsky; Collected Works by Lorine Niedecker; Pictures from Brueghel by William Carlos Williams; New Collected Poems by George Oppen; The Poems of Charles Reznikoff, 1918-1975
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