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X. J. Kennedy
b. August 21, 1929
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus One
Day.
First Confession.
Cross Ties.
Little Elegy.
September Twelfth, 2001.
Donald
Justice
3Listen
to Donald Justice read Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy
3New Criterion essay
“The memory of Donald Justice by David Yezzi”
(Justice’s criticism of the prose poem)
“In the 1960s
Justice—once again with most poets of his generation—discarded rhyme and
meter for free verse. But whereas his contemporaries generally began
writing autobiographical poems, Justice became a serious experimentalist.
He not only discarded traditional form but also, eventually, conventional
notions of genre, sequential exposition, originality, and even authorial
control. "Experimental" poetry is usually a name given to an
interesting artistic mess, the critical equivalent of an "A for
effort." But Justice's experiments virtually all succeed. To each new
method, he brought an extraordinary control, a formal tightness one
rarely associates with experimental verse, especially the sort which
displays no overt principles of organization.” –Dan Goia
3Notes on Donald Justice, The Study of
Prosody
Carolyn
Kizer
POEMS:
The Ungrateful Garden.
Bitch.
From “Pro Femina,”
Three.
On a Line from Sophocles.
Howard
Nemerov
History of a Literary Movement.
Goose-Fish.
A Primer of the Daily Round.
The Fourth of July.
Mousemeal.
The Human Condition.
Louis
Simpson
POEMS:
Listen
to Simpson read “A Clearing”
Richard
Wilbur
View video of
interview with Richard Wilbur
Poetry
Foundation page
on Richard Wilbur
Slate Magazine essay: “The Overlooked Master:
How poetic history conspired against Richard Wilbur.”
POEMS:
Poetry readings: "Love Calls Us to the Things of This
World"
Commentary
on
On "Love Calls Us to the Things of This
World"
Introduction
to "The Writer"
Reading
“The Writer”
Reading: "Hamlen Brook"
James Dickey
POEMS:
The Performance
The Heaven of Animals
on Sheep
Child
Adultery
Alan Dugan
3Listen to
National Book Award winner Alan Dugan's conversation with Linda Wertheimer
POEMS:
On a Seven-Day Diary
Love Song: I and Thou
Listen to Dugan recite his poem "Closing
Time at the Second Avenue Deli". Closing Time at 2nd Ave. Deli
Surviving Hurricane
For Kafka
Richard Hugo
On Hugo’s advice to young
poets in The Triggering Town
“The world inevitably
sends you to language—to your language: "you are after those
words you can own and ways of putting them in phrases and lines that are
yours by right of obsessive musical deed….Your words used your way will
generate your meanings. Your obsessions lead you to your vocabulary. Your
way of writing locates, even creates, your inner life. The relation of you
to your language gains power.”
“Writing off the Subject”
from The Triggering Town
POEMS:
Degrees of Gray in Phillipsburg.
On the subject of “Repetition”
& Hugo’s poem “My Buddy”
Bay of Recovery
Gerald Stern
Elizabeth Farnsworth discusses
inspiration and poetry with The National Book Award for Poetry winner
Gerald Stern
POEMS:
Behaving
Like a Jew
The Dancing
The Sounds of Wagner
Maxine Kumin
POEMS:
At the End of the Affair.
Listen to Maxine Kumin read “Woodchucks” (in our text)
Week Three: Confessionals and New
Confessionals
Recommended Reading
“Confessional
Poetry & the Artifice of Honesty” by David Yezzi
Essay Examining
the Poetry of Confession and Autobiography
W.
D. Snodgrass
Fleda Brown and W.D. Snodgrass Listen
to Audio Webcast (56:03
minutes)
POEMS:
Mementos, I.
The Examination.
After Experience Taught Me.
Anne
Sexton
Short clips of Anne
Sexton reciting some poetry
POEMS:
Unknown Girl in the Maternity
Ward.
All my Pretty Ones.
The Truth the Dead Know.
In Celebration of my Uterus.
Cinderella.
Sylvia Plath
POEMS:
The Colossus.
Morning Song --Plath's daughter, Frieda Hughes, talks about Ariel in
NPR interview
Edge.
Daddy. View a
video clip of the Sylvia Plath poem "Daddy".
Lady Lazarus
The Rival
The Moon and the Yew Tree
Sexton reading
Her Kind
Read Slate Magazine’s Ariel ReduxThe latest chapter in the Sylvia Plath controversy
by Meghan O'Rourke
Sharon Olds
POEMS:
The One Girl at the Boys Party.
Topography.
I Go Back to May 1937.
The Girl.
Video Olds reading
Self-Portrait Rear View
Kim
Addonizio
Real
Audio format: New Letters radio
interview with Robert Stewart, hosted by Angela Elam
POEMS:
First Poem for You.
Fine.
Target.
Poetry Flash interview
with Addonizio: “I wanted to ask you about
alcohol. Many of your poems and stories deal with addiction and obsession,
and alcohol seems to play a big role in them. Let me quote Billy Collins,
who said that your poems are "intensified versions of the barroom
ballad." Do you agree with that?”
Week Four: Deep Image & The
Beats
Recommended Reading
Ullman, Leslie, “Deep Imagists: The Subconscious as
Medium” (Word doc)
Bushell, Kevin, "Leaping Into the Unknown: The
Poetics of Robert Bly's Deep Image"
Robert Bly
Robert Bly reading
his poetry
Poetry Breaks I - Video
Robert Bly and Bill Moyers - Video
POEMS:
After Drinking All Night With a
Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem.
Where We Must Look For Help.
For my son Noah, 10 Years Old.
The Scandal.
James Wright
Groundbreaking Book: The
Branch Will Not Break by James Wright (1963)
POEMS:
Saint Judas. (essays
on the poem)
A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard's
Shack.
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry,
Ohio (comments
on the poem)
Two Poems About President
Harding.
A Blessing.
Lying in a Hammock at William
Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota - James Wright reads / Thom
Gunn remarks
Charles
Simic
Charles
Simic named as 15th U.S. poet laureate
NPR Live
Interview - Simic Reflects On Poet
Laureate Honor
Lannan Readings and Conversations - Charles Simic with David Lehman, March 14, 2007
POEMS:
Fork – Listen to Simic read
the poem
Stone.
“I was stolen by the gypsies...”
Listen
to Charles Simic read Shelley
Louise
Gluck
Video of interview
with Louise Gluck
Louise Glück - A collection
of critical, historical, and biographical information at the Modern
American Poetry site.
POEMS:
The Mirror.
Mock Orange.
The Reproach.
Daisies.
Robert Kelly (also associated with Deep Image)
W. S. Merwin
(b. September 30. 1927)
The Drunk in the Furnace.
For the Anniversary of My Death.
The Last One.
The Judgement
of Paris.
Yesterday.
Donald Hall
(b. September 20, 1928)
“During the sixties,
Hall, like other poets of his generation, found a degree of freedom and
room for experiment in syllabics. More or less simultaneously, a freer
verse emerges, some of it joining Robert Bly and James Wright in their
pursuit of Latin American surrealism and the "deep image." (Iowa
Review)
POEMS:
The Young Watch Us.
To a Waterfowl.
Names of Horses.
Woolworth's.
Beat Poets: Brautigan,
Gregory Corso, William Everson, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Diane Wakoski, Anne Waldman, Diane DiPrima
Allen Ginsberg
The Allen
Ginsberg Trust homepage
POEMS:
Audio of Ginsberg
reading “A Supermarket in California”
Charles Bukowski
(b.
August 16, 1920, d. March 9. 1994)
Bukowski links
Gregory
Corso
b. March 26, 1930, d. January 17, 2001
Marriage
Gary
Snyder
b. May 8, 1930
Riprap.
Hay For the Horses.
A Walk.
The Bath.
Week Five: Black Mountain School and
New York School
Black Mountain period
poets: Robert Creeley, Denise Levertov,
Robert Duncan
Robert Creeley
Audio & video at this
homepage
Denise Levertov
(b. October 24, 1923, d. December 20, 1999)
Some
notes on organic form
POEMS:
The Secret.
What Were They Like?
Song for Ishtar
New York School
Poets: John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Barbara Guest,,
Koch, Kenneth, Alice Notley, Frank O’Hara, James Schuyler, James
Frank O'Hara
(b. June 27, 1926, d. July 25, 1966).
Poem-Painting
-- Frank O'Hara & Norman Bluhm
Poem on Painting: On
Seeing Larry Rivers' "Washington Crossing the Delaware" at the
Museum of Modern Art
A class
with Anne Waldman reading and discussing Frank O'Hara's
POEMS:
Why I Am
Not a Painter
The Day Lady Died. (Philip
Levine reads
the poem)
Poem.
John Ashbery
(b. July 28, 1927).
Modern Poets: Frank O'Hara at MoMA: memories of O'Hara and his love for poetry and art during his time
at MoMA
Farm Implements and Rutabagas in
a Landscape.
Daffy Duck in Hollywood.
The Other Tradition.
Paradoxes and Oxymorons
"A True Account of Talking to the
Sun at Fire Island"
Denise Duhamel
(b. June 13, 1961)
Ego
Philip Levine
b. January 10, 1928
Animals are Passing From Our
Lives.
They Feed They
Lion.
Genius.
What Work Is.
Adrienne Rich
b. May 16, 1929
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers.
Living in Sin.
Diving into the Wreck.
Rape.
Final Notations.
From “An Atlas of the Difficult
World,” XIII (Dedications).
Galway Kinnell
b. February 1, 1927
After Making Love We Hear
Footsteps.
The Bear.
Little Sleep's Head Sprouting
Hair in the Moonlight.
Goodbye.
Saint Francis and the Sow.
A. R. Ammons
(b.
February 18, 1926, d. February 25, 2001)
"On
'Corson's Inlet'" by Richard Gray on the
Modern American Poetry site
Watch streaming video
of former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky remembers
A.R. Ammons
James Merrill
b. March 3, 1926, d. February 6, 1995
Charles on Fire.
The Broken Home.
Days of 1964.
Casual Wear.
Week Six:
Thom Gunn
b. August 29, 1929 d. 2004
A reading
from "Boss Cupid" by Thom Gunn for The New York Times on the Web,
August 2, 2000.
POEMS:
In the Tank.
From the Wave.
Terminal.
Mark Strand
b. April 11, 1934
The Tunnel.
The Marriage.
Eating Poetry.
Keeping Things Whole.
The Great Poet Returns.
Lucille Clifton
b. June 27, 1936
homage to my hips
wishes for sons.
lee.
Slaveships.
Russell Edson
b. April 9. 1935
When the Ceiling Cries.
An Old Man in Love.
Mama's Duck.
Susan Howe
b. June 10, 1937
Closed Fist Withholding an Open
Palm.
Ted Kooser
b. April 25, 1939
Audio/Video
Poems:
Selecting a Reader.
Abandoned Farmhouse.
The Salesman.
The Tattooed Lady.
Stephen Dunn
b. June 24, 1939
The Sacred.
A Secret Life.
The Sexual Revolution.
Michael S. Harper
Lunch Poems video
MILLER WILLIAMS
b. April 8, 1930
The Book.
Let Me Tell You.
The Curator.
Folding his USA Today.
He Makes His Point in the Blue
Star Café.
Rhina Espaillat
b. January 20, 193
Visiting Day.
Bra.
Reservation.
Linda Pastan
b. May 27, 1932
Ethics.
Crocuses.
1932-.
Gerald
Barrax
b. June 21, 1933
Strangers like Us: Pittsburgh,
Raleigh, 1945-1985.
Pittsburgh, 1948: The Music
Teacher.
Robert Mezey
b. February 28, 1935
Hardy.
My Mother.
Mary Oliver
b. September 10, 1935
The Black Snake.
University Hospital, Boston.
The Buddha's Last Instruction.
The Egret.
Fred
Chappell
b. May 28, 1936
Narcissus and Echo.
My Grandmother Washes Her Feet.
Ave Atque
Vale.
Nancy Willard (b. June 26, 1936).
A Humane Society.
How to Stuff a Pepper.
A Hardware Store as Proof of the
Existence of God.
C. K. Williams (b. November 4, 1936).
The Critic.
Hooks.
Peace.
Harm.
The Dress.
Robert Phillips (b. February 2,
1938).
Running on Empty.
The Stone Crab: A Love Poem.
Compartments.
Jared Carter (b. January 10,
1939).
Interview.
Drawing the Antique.
The Gleaning.
The Purpose of Poetry.
Tom Disch
(b. February 2, 1940).
Ballade of the New God.
The Rapist's Villanelle.
Zewhyexary.
Pattiann Rogers
(b. March 23, 1940).
Discovering Your Subject.
Foreplay.
Robert Pinsky
(b. October 20, 1940).
The Want Bone.
Shirt.
ABC.
Peter Makuck
(b. October 26, 1940).
Against Distance.
Robert Hass (b. March 1, 1941).
Meditation at Lagunitas.
Forty
Something.
A Story About the Body.
Forty
Something.
Billy Collins (b. March 22, 1941).
Schoolsville.
Nostalgia.
Litany.
Poem
prompt from Collin’s poem “Marginalia”
Poem
prompt from Collin’s poem “The Lanyard”
Gibbons Ruark
(b. December 10, 1941).
The Visitor.
Polio.
Lecturing My Daughters.
Charles Martin (b. June 25,
1942).
E.S.L.
Victoria's Secret.
How My Queer Uncle Died at Last.
Henry Taylor (b. June 21, 1942).
Artichoke.
Underpass.
William Matthews (b. November
11, 1942, d. November 12, 1997).
The Search Party.
Housecooling.
Onions
Marilyn Hacker (b.
November 27, 1942).
Wagers.
Ghazal on Half a Line by
Adrienne Rich.
Omelette.
Sydney Lea (b. December 22,
1942).
The Feud.
Ellen Bryant Voigt (b. May 9,
1943).
Daughter.
The Lesson.
Michael Palmer (b. May 11,
1943).
Voice and Address.
[A word is coming up on the
screen...]
Untitled [O you in that little
bark...]
James Tate (b. December 8,
1943).
The Blue Booby.
The Lost Pilot.
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems.
Shirley Geok-Lin
Lim (b. December 27, 1944).
Pantoum for Chinese Women.
Riding into California.
Starlight Haven.
Robert Morgan (b. October 3,
1944).
Finding an Old Newspaper in the
Woods.
Sigodlin.
Mountain Bride.
Dick Davis (b. April 8, 1945).
Farewell to the Mentors.
Duchy and Shinks.
A Monorhyme
for the Shower.
Kay Ryan (b. September 11,
1945).
Turtle.
Bestiary.
Drops in the Bucket.
Mockingbird.
B.H. Fairchild (b. October 17,
1945).
Beauty.
A Photograph of the Titanic.
Leon Stokesbury
(b. December 5, 1945).
To His Book.
The Day Kennedy Died.
The Composition of “The Eve of
St. Agnes” Followed in Mid-April by “La Belle Dame Sans Merci.”
Marilyn Nelson (b. April 26,
1946).
Lonely Eagles.
The Ballad of Aunt Geneva.
Minor Miracle.
Molly Peacock (b. June 30,
1947).
Buffalo.
Why I am not a Buddhist.
A Favor of Love.
Ai (b. October 21, 1947).
Child Beater.
She Didn't Even Wave.
Yusef Komunyakaa (b. April 29,
1947).
Facing It.
My Father's Love Letters.
Ode to the Maggot.
Jim Hall (b. July 4, 1947).
Maybe Dats
Your Pwoblem Too.
Sperm Count.
White Trash.
Amy Uyematsu
(October 18, 1947).
Lessons from Central America.
Timothy Steele (b. January 22,
1948).
Prosody for 21st-Century
Poets
Sapphics Against Anger.
From “Short Subjects,” Social
Reform.
Life Portrait.
Albert Goldbarth
(b. January 31, 1948).
Dog, Fish, Shoes (or Beans).
Rarified.
Rembrandt/Panties.
Thomas Lux
(b. December 10, 1948).
Graveyard by the Sea.
Kwashiorkor; Marasmus.
Refrigerator, 1957.
Daughter poems
Wendy Rose (b. May 7, 1948).
Robert.
Alfalfa Dance.
Grandmother Rattler.
Lynn Emanuel (b. March 14,
1949).
Frying Trout While Drunk.
The Sleeping.
Outside Room Six.
David St. John (b. July 24,
1949).
I Know.
Los Angeles, 1954.
My Tea with Madame Descartes.
Sarah Cortez (b. February
11, 1950).
Tu Negrito.
Rosie Working Plain Clothes.
How to Undress a Cop.
Rodney Jones (b. February 11,
1950).
Winter Retreat: Homage to Martin
Luther King, Jr.
On the Bearing of Waitresses.
Carolyn Forché
(b. April 28, 1950).
The Colonel.
Expatriate.
Strangers on a Train.
Chase Twichell
(b. August 20, 1950).
From The Ghost of Eden:
XVIII. The City in the Lilac.
VII. Car Alarm.
XXI. Corporate Geese.
Jorie Graham (b. May 9, 1950).
I Watched a Snake.
Two Paintings by Gustav Klimt.
At Luca Signorelli's
Resurrection of the Body.
Emily Grosholz
(October 17, 1950).
Letter from Germany.
November.
Mekeel McBride (b. July 3, 1950).
Aubade.
Kettle.
If That Boaty
Pink Cadillac from 1959 With The Huge Fins.
Timothy Murphy (b. January 10,
1950).
The Track of a Storm.
Case Notes.
Dana Gioia
(b. December 24, 1950).
Planting a Sequoia.
The Next Poem.
Elegy with Surrealist Proverbs
as a Refrain.
Joy Harjo
(b. May 9, 1951).
She Had Some Horses.
Song for the Deer and Myself to
Return On.
Naomi Shihab
Nye (b. March 12, 1952).
Famous.
The Traveling Onion.
Yellow Glove.
Andrew Hudgins (b. April 22,
1951).
Air View of an Industrial Scene.
From “Saints and Strangers,”
Where the River Jordan Ends.
Heat Lightening During Drought.
Judith Ortiz Cofer
(b. February 24, 1952).
The Lesson of the Teeth.
The Latin Deli: An Ars Poetica.
Mark Jarman
(b. June 5, 1952).
After Disappointment.
Ground Swell.
Rita Dove (b. August 28, 1952).
Adolescence—III.
Parsley.
American Smooth.
Poem prompt –
“Math”
Brad Leithauser
(b. February 27, 1952).
A Quiled
Quilt, A Needle Bed.
The Odd Last Thing She Did.
Alberto Ríos (b. September 18,
1952).
The Purpose of Altar Boys.
Madre
Sofia.
Harryette Mullen (b. ? 1953).
Dim Lady.
Any Lit.
Julia Alvarez (b. March 27,
1953).
How I Learned to Sweep.
From 33.
Bilingual Sestina.
Mark Doty (b. August 10, 1953).
Tiara.
Bill's Story.
No.
Poem prompt -
“Heaven” poem
Gjertrud Schnackenberg (b. August 27,
1953).
Nightfishing.
Signs.
Supernatural Love.
Michael Donaghy (b. May 24, 1954).
Cadenza.
Pentecost.
Black Ice and Rain.
Mary Jo Salter (b. August 15,
1954).
Welcome to Hiroshima.
Dead Letters.
David Mason (b. December 11,
1954).
Spooning.
Song of the Powers.
Ginger Andrews (b. May 16,
1956).
Primping in the Rearview mirror.
H. L. Hix
(b. November 24, 1960).
Selections from “Orders of
Magnitude”: 46, 48 and 83.
Catherine Tufariello
(b. April 9, 1963).
Useful Advice.
Greg Williamson (b. June 26,
1964).
Kites at the Washington
Monument.
Raphael Campo (b. November 24,
1964).
Oysters.
Christian Wiman
(b. August 31, 1966).
Afterwards.
Diane Thiel
(b. May 9, 1967).
Memento Mori in Middle School.
Suji Kwock Kim (b. ? 1968).
Occupation.
A. E. Stallings (b. July 2,
1968).
Hades Welcomes His Bride.
Wilmer Mills (b. October 1, 1969).
Ghost Story.
Morrie Creech (b. September 15, 1970).
Broken Glass.
Beth Ann Fennelly
(b. May 22, 1971).
Asked for a Happy Memory of her
Father, She Recalls Wrigley Field.
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