Class Agendas
Week One Agenda: Poems about Poetry and Poetry as Emotional Cartography Week Two Agenda: Poems as Image Machines Week Three Agenda: Poems as…
Reading Contemporary Poetry
General Information: Reading Contemporary Poetry
Course Number: 09WG094Course Title: Reading Contemporary Poetry: Tools, Tips, and TricksInstructor: Dr. Marta FergusonSchedule: W 6-8pm, 02/11-/3/04Number of sessions: 4Textbook/ISBN: The Poetry Readers'…
Class Norms
Do not wear heavily scented perfumes or aftershaves.Put cell phones on meeting or vibrate settings.Take individual breaks for bathrooms and snacks as desired.
Important Poetry Links
Poetry Daily Verse Daily Poetry Foundation Academy of American Poets Poetry 180 American Life in Poetry Contemporary American Poetry Archive Lannan Foundation Best…
Reading Contemporary Poetry Week One: Poetry as Emotional Cartography
Week One AgendaAdministrivia Lannan Reading Introductions Poems About Poetry Polonsky Exercise Poetry as Emotional Cartography Revisiting Lannan Reading The Waking by Theodore Roethke…
Week One Poems
Poems About PoetryIntroduction to Poetry by Billy Collins The Poet by Tom Wayman Poetry by Don Paterson A New Poet by Linda Pastan…
Reading Contemporary Poetry Week Two: Poems as Image Machines
Week Two AgendaLannan Reading Questions/Discussion of Ch. 3: Image Polonsky paired exercise and discussion Group exercise on Ishmael Reed poem and discussion Individual…
Week Two Poems
Poems as Image MachinesNot Swans by Susan Ludvigson Nest by Marianne Boruch Between the Wars by Robert Haas Cloudy Day by Jimmy Santiago…
Reading Contemporary Poetry Week Three: Poems as Story Boxes
Week Three AgendaGiving Them Back to the AirPaired Exercise: StoriesGroup Exercise: StoriesHistory of Genre mini lecture History of American Poetry at WikipediaIndividual Exercises:…
Week Three Poems
Poems as Story BoxesFat is Not a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen To a Daughter Leaving Home by Linda Pastan Our Other Sister…
Week Four Poems
Poems as Sound SystemsPoems Focused on SoundWheels by Jim Daniels Radio by Laurel Blossom Dorie Off to Atlanta by Mark Halliday Not that…
Reading Contemporary Poetry Week Four: Poems as Sound Systems
Week Four AgendaGiving Them Back to the Air Individual Sound Exercises Lannan Reading Roethke Exercise Class Evaluations Sonnet-a-ThonWeek Four ResourcesLinks to Week Four…
2009 Reading Contemporary Poetry
General InformationClass NormsImportant Poetry LinksWeek One: Why Poetry and Poetry as Emotional CartographyWeek Two: Poems as Image MachinesWeek Three: Poems as Story BoxesWeek…