key links & resources
1. PennSound: link to site
2. Kelly Writers House: link to site
3. Al Filreis homepage: link to site
4. PoemTalk: link to site
5. Jacket2 magazine: link to site
Tuesday, January 29 - introduction to modern poetry
1. read Emily Dickinson's "I dwell in Possibility": link to text
2. 
watch video on
Dickinson's "I dwell in Possibility": link to
video
3. read two versions William Carlos Williams's poem called "Young Woman at a Window": link to
text of versions 1 & 2
4. read John Yau's "830 Fireplace Road": link to text
5.
listen to Tracie Morris perform "Chain Gang": link
to PennSound audio
6.
listen to Sam Cooke perform "Chain Gang": link to
YouTube
Tuesday, February 5 - Dickinson, Whitman, Dickinsonians & Whitmanians
Dickinson:
1. read Dickinson's "I taste a liquor never brewed": link to text
2. read Dickinson's "The Brain, within its Groove": link to text
3. watch video on
Dickinson's "The Brain within its Groove": links to video part 1 & part 2
Whitman:
4. read Whitman's Song of Myself cantos 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 14, 47, 52: link
to text
5.
listen to Al Filreis reading excerpts from "Song of Myself": link to audio
Dickinsonians:
6. read Cid Corman's "It isnt for want": link to text
7.
listen to Corman perform "It isnt for want": link
to
PennSound
8. read Lorine Niedecker's "Grandfather advised me": link to text
Whitmanians:
9. read Allen Ginsberg's "A Supermarket in California": link to text
10.
listen to Ginsberg perform "A Supermarket in California": link
to PennSound
11.
watch video on "A Supermarket in California": link
to video
Tuesday, February 12 - imagists
1. read H.D.'s "Sea Rose": link to text
2. read H.D.'s "Oread": link to
text
3. read H.D.'s "Sea Poppies": link to
text
4. read Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro": link to text
5.
watch a video discussion of Pound's "Metro":
link to video
6. read William Carlos Williams's "The Red Wheelbarrow": link to text
7.
listen to four performances by Williams of "The Red Wheelbarrow": listen to audio
8.
watch a
museum-goer's video of Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" at SFMOMA: link to YouTube
9. look at photograph of Duchamp's
"Fountain": link to
photo
10.
watch a video discussion of Duchamp's "Fountain":
link to video
11. read Ezra Pound's "The Encounter": link to text
Tuesday, February 19 - William Carlos Williams
1. read Williams's "Between Walls": link to text
2A.
listen to a PoemTalk discussion of "Between Walls": link to PoemTalk
2B.
read/listen with text-audio alignment to Williams's "Between Walls": link to PennSound
3. read Williams's "This Is Just to Say": link to text
4.
listen to five of Williams's performances of "This Is Just to Say": link
to audio
5.
listen to Williams discuss "This Is Just to Say" and Flossie's response: link
to audio
6. read Flossie Williams's reply to "This Is Just to Say": link to text
7. read Williams's "Portait of a Lady": link to text
8.
listen to three recordings of Williams reading "Portrait of a Lady":
1,
2,
3
9. look closely at Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase": link
10.
watch video discussion of Duchamp's "Nude Descending": link to video
Tuesday, February 26 - Gertrude Stein
1. read Stein's "A Very Valentine": link to text
2. read a brief introduction to Stein's Tender Buttons: link to text
3. read Stein's "The Long Dress" from Tender Buttons: link to text [scroll down or control-F to
search]
4. read Stein on the noun: link
5. read Stein on narrative: link
6. read Stein's "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso" and Ulla Dydo's comment: link to
text
7.
listen to Stein reading "If I Told Him": link
to PennSound
8.
watch video of dance choreographed to Stein's "If I Told Him": link to YouTube
9.
watch a video discussion of "If I Told Him": link
to video
10. read Stein's "Let Us Describe": link to
text [scroll down]
11. read Tristan Tzara's "To Make a Dadaist Poem": link to text
12. read Tzara's "To Make a Dadaist Poem" in an introduction to "chance operations": link
13.
watch Yeju Choi's film-illustration of "To Make a Dadaist Poem": link to video
14.
watch video on Tzara's "To Make a Dadaist Poem": link to video
Tuesday, March 12 - Harlem Renaissance
1. read Countee Cullen's "Incident": link to text
2. read Claude McKay's "If We Must Die": link to text
3.
listen to Claude McKay perform "If We Must Die": link to text
4. read Melvin Tolson's review of McKay's "If We Must Die": link to text
5. read Gwendolyn Brooks's "truth": link
to text
6. read Etheridge Knight's "The Sun Came": link to text
7.
listen to an episode of PoemTalk on Brooks & Knight: link to PoemTalk
Tuesday, March 19 - communists on the left, Frost on the right
1. read Edwin Rolfe's "Season of Death": link to text
2. read Genevieve Taggard's "Interior": link to text
3.
watch a video discussion of Taggard's "Interior": link to video
4. read Ruth Lechlitner's "Lines for an Abortionist's Office": link to text
5. read Langston Hughes's "I look at the world": link to text
6. read Arnold Rampersad's comment on Hughes's Depression poems, including "I look at the world":
link to text
7. read Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": link to text
8.
listen to Robert Frost perform the poem: link to audio
9.
watch & listen to four contemporary poets debating "Mending Wall": listen to
audio-only
recording; watch video
Tuesday, April 2 - beats
1. read Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" (part 1): link to text
2.
listen to Ginsberg perform "Howl" in 1956: listen
to audio
3. read Jack Kerouac's "Essentials of Spontaneous Prose": link to text
4. read three passages of Kerouac's spontaneous prose: link to text
5. read the opening passage from Kerouac's "October in the Railroad Earth": link to text
6. listen to Kerouac perform to opening of "October in the Railroad Earth": link
to audio
7.
watch video discussion of Kerouac's "babble flow": link to video
8. read Robert Creeley's "I Know a Man": link
to text
9A.
listen to five PennSound recordings of Creeley performing "I Know a Man": links to
recordings
9B.
read/listen with
text-audio alignment to Creeley's "I Know a Man": link to PennSound
10.
listen to an episode of PoemTalk about Creeley's "I Know a Man": link to PoemTalk
11. read Amiri Baraka's "Incident": link to
text
Tuesday, April 9 - the New York School
1. read Frank O'Hara's "The Day Lady Died": link to text
2. read Kenneth Koch's "Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams": link to text
3. read Frank O'Hara's "A Step away from Them": link to text
4.
watch a video discussion of O'Hara's "A Step away from Them": link to video
5A. read John Ashbery's "Some Trees": link to text
5B.
read/listen with
text-audio alignment to Ashbery's "Some Trees": link to PennSound
6.
listen to Ashbery perform "Some Trees": link
to PennSound
7. read John Ashbery's "Hard Times": link to text
8.
watch video discussion of Ashbery's "Hard Times": link to video
9. read John Ashbery's "The Instruction Manual": link to text
10.
listen to Ashbery perform "The Instruction Manual": link
to PennSound
Tuesday, April 16 - the language poets
1. read Ron Silliman's "Albany": link to text
2.
listen to Silliman perform "Albany": link
to PennSound
3. read four sections of Lyn Hejinian's My Life: link to PDF
copy
4.
listen to Lyn Hejinian perform these four sections of My Life:
link to PennSound
5. read Bob Perelman's "Chronic Meanings": link to text
6. read Bob Perelman's commentary on "Chronic Meanings": link to text
7.
listen to Bob Perelman talk briefly about "Chronic Meanings": link
to PennSound
8.
listen to Perelman perform "Chronic Meanings": link
to PennSound
9. read Ron Silliman's "BART": link to text
10.
listen to Ron Silliman perform "BART": link to
audio
11.
watch video discussion of Silliman's "BART": link
to video
Tuesday, April 23 - conceptualists
1. read "chapter E" of Christian Bok's Eunoia: link to text
2.
listen to Christian Bok perform "chapter E" of Eunoia: link
to PennSound
3. read "Act 1" of Kenneth Goldsmith's "Soliloquy": link to PDF
4.
watch video discussion of Goldsmith's "Soliloquy": link to video
5. read Mike Magee's "Pledge" from Morning Constitutional: link to text
6. read and look at Erica Baum's Card Catalogues: link to PDF
7. read and look at Erica Baum's Dog Ear: link to PDF
8.
watch video discussion of Erica Baum's art: link to video
9. read Jennifer Scappettone's "Vase Poppies": link to text
10.
listen to Scappettone reading "Vase Poppies": link
to audio
11.
listen to PoemTalk episode on Scappettone's "Vase Poppies" and H.D."s "Sea Poppies": link to
PoemTalk & H.D. text
12.
listen to Tracie Morris introduce and perform "Afrika": link
to audio
13.
watch a video of Tracie Morris performing "Afrika": link to video
14.
listen to musical arrangement of "Afrika" with Val Jeanty:
link to
PennSound
Tuesday, April 30 - open session
Tuesday, May 7 - wrap-up session: final words, dinner served