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Charles Bernstein Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature University of Pennsylvania

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COURSE SYLLABI Fall 2013 English 269: Revolution of the Word: Modernist American Poetry 1900-1945, M/W 2-3:30pm English 262: The Expanded Field of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: Contemporary Poetry (poetry after 1975) M/W 3:30-5 Spring 2013 English 62 / Comp List 62: Twentieth Century Poetry (from everywhere but the U.S.) M 6 English 795 – Poetics of Identity M 12 Fall 2012 on leave Spring 2012 English 288 postwar American Poetry M 6 English 111 Experimental Writing M 2 Fall 2011 Bain-Swigget seminar at graduate Princeton: Poetry Ordinary and Extraordinary: The Pataque(e)rics of Everyday Life Spring 2011 English 111/ CompLit 115: Experimental Writing Seminar: Mondays 2-4:50pm English / Comp Lit 795: Unsettling the Word: Attack of the Difficult Poems (The Aversive Poetics of Estrangement, Disturbance, Expropriation, Abnormality, and the Pataqueerical): Mondays at 6 Fall 2010 English 62 / Comp List 62: Twentieth Century Poetry (from everywhere but the U.S.) — an interactive "wreading" workshop (Weds. 2-4:50) English 262: Contemporary Poetry (poetry after 1975) (Weds., 6-8:50pm) Spring 2010 English 288: Revolution of the Word: Modernist American Poetry 1900-1945  T/Th, 1:30-2:50pm [Course number subsequently changed to English 269] English 111: Experimental Writing Seminar: T/Th, 3-4:20pm Fall 2009 English/Comp Lit 288: Postwar American Poetry T/Th, 1:30-2:50pm English/Comp Lit 795: Poetry and Ideology: The Aesthetics of Resistance and Complicity Thurs 7-10:00 Spring 2009 English 62 / Comp List 62: Twentieth Century Poetry (from everywhere but the U.S.) — an interactive "wreading" workshop: W 6-8:50pm English 111: Experimental Writing Seminar: Weds., 2-4:50 Spring 2008 English 111: Experimental Writing Seminar: Weds., 2-4:50 Fall 2007 English 88: American Poetry Modern and Contemporary,: T/Th, 1:30pm English 589 /Comp Lit 577: "The Minor and the Major: Keynotes of 20th Century Poetry," Tues., 6:30pm. This seminar will be taught in tandem with Rachel DuPlessis's seminar at Temple; both classes will meet together. A Temple-Penn Poetics project. Spring 2007 English 111: Experimental Writing Seminar: Thurs., 1:30-4:20 English 795/CompLit 795: The Sound of Poetry, the Poetry of Sound; Thursdays, 6:30pm Spring 2006 English 62 / Comp List 62: Twentieth Century Poetry (from everywhere but the U.S.) — an interactive "wreading" workshop: M/W 2pm English 111: Experimental Writing Seminar: Monday/Wednesdays, 3:30 Fall 2005: English 88: American Poetry: Modern and Contemporary; English 589 / Comp Lit 577: Modern, Modernist, Contemporary: Reading Poetry/Poetry Reading; Spring 2005: English 62 / Comp List 62: Twentieth Century Poetry (from everywhere but the U.S.) -- an interactive "wreading" workshop; Mondays and Wednesdays at 3pm English 774 / Comp Lit 622: Textual Conditions -- Mondays at 12pm Spring 2004: English 285: Close Encouners -- Contemporary Poetry, Poetics, and Prose English 788: Whose Ordinary: Modernism and Its Others Fall 2003: English 111: Experimental Writing Seminar English 288: Revolution of the Word in Context: Modernisms University at Buffalo Syllabi ——— Wreading Experiments List Writing Experiments List Poem Profiler (EZ format)

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John Reynolds, "Pretty Ugly" (2004); text from Let's Just Say (Chax Press, 2003)