Links to consider:

Overview

Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren & Robert Graves from Understanding Poetry: An Anthology. Week 1              
bullet Read Online Protocol
bullet Read Work Load Issues
bullet Readings--Read Rich
bullet Begin reading Intro to PoetryWeek 1 for specifics
bullet Interview Partner
bullet Begin Journals
bullet Discuss seminars
bullet Read Chapter 1
 

Emily Dickinson

Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
"Baseball Canto"

George Hartley, "Textual Politics and the Language Poets"

Week 2
bullet Computer Day, Friday
bullet Read Giving and Receiving Feedback
bullet Complete Feedback Exercise
bullet TJE#1  -- due Monday
bullet Begin Seminar 1 due the 17th -- Wed. for feedback
bullet Read Elements of Poetry  
bullet Explicate Roethke, Rich, and Hayden
bullet Read Chapter 2
Gertrude Stein, "Readings"

John Ashbery, "What Is Poetry?"

Jerome McGann, "Contemporary Poetry, Alternate Routes"

Week 3   Chapter 5
bullet Computer Day, Monday
bullet Begin thinking about Research 1
bullet TJE#2
bullet Images - Chapter 5
bullet Library Day, Tuesday.
bullet Seminar 1 Due -- Wed. for peer edit --remember to include Post Script
bullet Peer edit sheet
bullet Thursday, Seminar with groups 1 and 2
bullet Poetry Day at Library--11:30
bullet Friday, Seminar with groups 3 and 4 
bullet Begin Seminar 2
bullet Click here for group assignments

Wallace Stevens

Week 4 Chapter 6
bullet Computer Day, Monday
bullet TJE#3 due on Tuesday
bullet Metaphors
bullet Seminar 2 due Wed. for peer edit
bullet Peer edit sheet
bullet Check to see leaders of seminar groups this week
bullet Thursday, Seminar with groups 1 and 3
bullet Friday, Seminar with groups 2 and 4
bullet Writing about literature help: http://www.wwnorton.com/introlit/
write_evidence.htm
bullet Begin Research 1
Muriel Rukeyser, "Metaphor to Action"

Jack Kerouac, "trying to think of a rule..."

 

Week 5       Chapter 10
bullet Computer Day, Monday
bullet TJE#4 due on Tuesday
bullet Discuss Form
bullet Wed. Research 1 due for peer edit and discussion -- Peer edit sheet --final draft due on Tuesday
bullet  Wednesday Short Quiz
bullet Students choose one of the poets from selections --give me a list of your top 3 prioritized on Thursday
bullet Thursday: Whole class seminar on research 1.
bullet  Friday: No class. Begin  Seminar 3
Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Two Sonnets in Memory"

John Donne, "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

Week 6    Chapter 13
bullet Research 1 due on Tuesday
bullet Format for Research paper
bullet Myth and Narrative--Chapter 13
bullet TJE#5 due
bullet Set up for Research #2 
bullet Poet Teams
bullet Poet Project
bullet Presentations
bullet Timelines
bullet Begin Poet Work
bullet Seminar 3 due Wed. for peer edit
bullet Peer edit sheet
bullet Thursday, Seminar with groups 4 and 3
bullet Friday, Seminar with groups 2 and 1
bullet Begin Seminar 4


Laurie Anderson, "From the Air"

John Cage, "Writing through Howl"
Week 7     Symbols    Chapter 12
bullet TJE#6  
bullet 30 Minute Non-stop due -attach timeline sheet to the inside of a folder to start organizing this info
bullet Teams have Poet Discussions on Tuesday--answer questions, assign Litweb--meet in library
bullet Seminar 4 due Wed. for peer edit
bullet Peer edit sheet
bullet Thursday, Seminar with groups 4 and 2
bullet Friday, Seminar with groups 3 and 1
bullet Begin Seminar 5 
Allen Ginsberg, "America"


Week 8      
bullet Tuesday--Groups have Poet Discussions -- library
bullet TJE#7 due
bullet MLA Discussion
bullet Wed. -- Seminar 5 due for feedback
bullet Summary of 2 resources  
bullet Preliminary research of litweb
bullet Begin 2nd Research Draft
bullet Seminar 5 due Wed. for peer edit
bullet Peer edit sheet
bullet Thursday, Whole Class Seminar 
bullet Friday:  Work day
bullet MLA Handouts:
*traditional sources
*electronic sources
*embedding sources
bullet Model of seminar 5
Ezra Pound, "The Encounter"

Beat Poetry Home Page
Week 9      
bullet Monday: holiday
bullet T: Groups have Poet Discussions -- library
bullet TJE#8,  Final  -- turn in completed journal
bullet W: Peer feedback--2nd Research Draft  
bullet Literary Links for Litweb due 
bullet R&F--teams work on presentation--no class.
George Oppen, "The Prudery Of Frigidaire"

Genevieve Taggard, "Interior"

Louis Zukofsky, "[he men in the kitchens]"

Ruth Lechlitner, "Lines for an Abortionist's Office"  
Week 10 
bullet 2nd draft of Research paper due to Jan for comments
bullet Presentations
Thomas McGrath, "War Resisters' Song"

Allen Tate, "Narcissus as Narcissus

"William Carlos Williams, "A poem is a small...machine"

Hypertext Poetry

Week 11     Wrap Up
bullet Research 2 due
bullet Exam
bullet Reflection paper due


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