Realaudio digital files recording
an Alumverse session at Penn's Writers House, December 7, 1996

USA Today story about Alumverse, August 7, 1996
A Philadelphia Inquirer story about us...
SAS "On-line Alumni Study Poetry by the Internet" (from School of Arts & Sciences Newsletter, Spring 1996)

Modern & Contemporary American Poetry

Alumni Internet Learning - This is a Virtual Course!

"taught" by Al Filreis, Professor of English & Undergraduate Chair
with assistance from: Christy Goralnik (C 97) & Carlos Decena (C 95)

On Alumni

Weekend, we had an Alumverse (Non-Re)union. At left is a photo Conni Bille took at that gathering. Click on the small picture and see a fuller-sized copy. At right is: DocGonzo (Barry Ellman) and Al at the same gathering.

Those enrolled in the course.
How to enroll in this course.
For many of the materials we are using in this course, please take a look at the 'home page' for English 88.
Daily Pennsylvanian story about this course.
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Readings and discussion materials

Emily Dickinson, "I dwell in possibility"
Discussion of "I dwell in possibility"
Text and discussion questions on Dickinson's "There is a solitude of space"
Al Filreis on "the Dickinsonian", Jan. 20, 1996
Whitman's "The Sleepers"
Lorine Niedecker
Imagism defined briefly
On H.D.'s "Sea Rose"
Discussion of Pound's "The Encounter"
Discussion of Williams's "The rose is obsolete"
Stein & Nonrepresentational Art
On Stein's "Let Us Describe"
Stein's hubris
On sticking to the "topic"
Frost's "Mending Wall": subject & object
On Williams's "To Elsie"
On Ashbery's thin vertical path
Ashbery's "Some Trees"
On Kerouac and spontaneity.
On women poets in the 50s and the Beats
Joe on the May 18, 1996 Alumversers gathering
Exchange on Gary Soto
The Baroness
Adam's response to Cage and Al's rejoinder to Adam
Cage quotations as offered by Joe
"Dog" by Ferlinghetti

A FEW FINAL WORDS FROM ALUMVERSERS

Joe Williams
Robert Shepard
David Bienenfeld
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- January 1996 - "I feel like the man found in the ice"
- Feburary 1996 - "True confessions about the jar"
- March 1996 - "A nose is a nose a nose"
- April 1996 - "Poling the ferry"
- May 1996 - "Anarchy with Rules?"
- June 1996 - "Finding words"
  
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Modern & Contemporary American Poetry

Alumni Internet Learning - This is a Virtual Course!

A FEW FINAL WORDS FROM ALUMVERSERS

LISTSERV ARCHIVE