The Materials of Poetry

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Hello Students!

2013-08-14

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"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

2013-08-14

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"Why I Am Not a Painter" by Frank O'Hara

2013-08-16

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Week 2 Readings

2013-08-17

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Assignment: Responding to a Love Poem

2013-08-21

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Week 3 Readings: Tone and Speaker

2013-08-23

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Week 4: Speaker, Situation, Setting

2013-09-04

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Week 5: Time and Place

2013-09-09

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Week 6: Language Choices

2013-09-13

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Essay #1: Analysis of a Poem

2013-09-16

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Week 7: Essay and Exam

2013-09-20

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Week 8: Writing Literal and Figurative Language

2013-09-30

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Week 9: The Sounds of Poetry

2013-10-07

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Week 10: Sound and Structure

2013-10-14

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A Tool for Practicing Prosody

2013-10-16

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Bonus Opportunities

2013-10-21

bonus

Week 12: External Form

2013-10-28

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Week 13: The Whole Poem

2013-11-04

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Week 14: Poetry in Context

2013-11-13

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Week 15: Poetry in Context

2013-11-22

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Essay #2: Contextual Analysis of a Poem

2013-11-22

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Electronic Poetry

2013-12-02

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End of Semester Survival Guide

2013-12-07

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Fall 2015 Startup

2015-08-14

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Week 1: Poetry and Memory

2015-08-14

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Week 2: Rhythm, Meter, and Rhyme

2015-08-21

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Week 3: Patterns of sound

2015-08-28

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Week 4: Sounding it out

2015-09-07

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Bonus: Greeting Card Analysis

2015-09-07

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Week 5: Sound Check

2015-09-11

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Week 6: Lines, Stanzas, Poetic Form

2015-09-21

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Week 7: Written Poetry

2015-09-25

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Week 8: Time and Motion

2015-10-02

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Week 9: Videopoetry

2015-10-14

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Week 10: Review and Assessment

2015-10-26

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Week 11: Generative Poetry

2015-10-26

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Week 12: Constraint Based Writing

2015-11-01

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Week 13: Bots!

2015-11-06

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Week 14: I [game] E-Poetry

2015-11-16

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Week 15: Writing About E-Poetry

2015-11-23

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English 3325: Modern Poetry - The Hipster Edition

2015-11-25

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Week 16: Poetry and Meaning

2015-11-30

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Week 17: Shutdown

2015-12-07

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Final Exam

2015-12-11

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The Poetry Sequence

2017-08-13

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Fall 2017 Startup

2017-08-14

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Week 1: Poetry, Media, Technology

2017-08-16

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Week 2: Poetry as a Technology

2017-08-21

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Week 3: Rhyme, Rhythm, Meter, Cadence

2017-08-28

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Week 4: Articulatory Acrobatics

2017-09-11

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Week 5: Play

2017-10-30

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Week 6: Writing Sound

2017-11-06

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Week 7: Structure and Form

2017-11-13

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Week 8: Closed and Open Form

2017-11-20

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Week 9: The Search for Meaning

2017-11-27

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Week 10: Meaning and Metaphor

2017-12-04

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Week 11: Writing in Time

2017-12-11

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Week 12: Generative Poetry

2017-12-18

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Week 13: Reading Electronic Poetry

2018-01-06

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Week 14: Digital Materiality and Media Specific Analysis

2018-01-08

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Week 15: Poetic Contexts

2018-01-15

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Week 16: Poetic Traditions

2018-01-22

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Fall 2017 Final Exam

2018-01-28

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Hello ASU Students!

2019-08-17

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Week 1: The Materials of Poetry

2019-08-20

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Week 2: The Sounds of Poetry

2019-08-29

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New Group Forum

2019-09-03

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Week 3: The Music of Poetry

2019-09-03

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Week 4: Looking at Poems

2019-09-10

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Essay #1: Material Analysis of a Poem

2019-09-17

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Week 5: Poetry Beyond the Page

2019-09-17

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Week 6: Poetry and Meaning

2019-09-24

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Week 7: Poetic Contexts and Traditions

2019-10-01

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Weeks 8 & 9: From Analog to Digital Poetry

2019-10-17

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Week 10: Videopoetry and Kinetic Poetry

2019-10-23

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Week 11: Generative Poetry

2019-10-29

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Week 12: Bots and Multimodality

2019-11-05

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Week 13: Meaningful Interactivity

2019-11-12

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Essay #2: Researched Analysis and Interpretation of an E-Poem

2019-11-14

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Week 14: E-Lit History and Methods

2019-11-19

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Weeks 15 & 16: Past, Present, and Future of Poetry

2019-12-03

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Week 1: The Materials of Poetry

2022-08-22

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Weeks 2-3: The Sounds of Poetry

2022-08-29

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Weeks 4-5: The Page and Beyond

2022-09-12

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Essay #1: Analysis and Interpretation of Sound in a Poem

2022-09-16

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Week 6: Poetry and Meaning

2022-09-26

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Weeks 7 & 8: Looking at Poems

2022-10-03

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Weeks 9 & 10: Videopoetry

2022-10-19

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Essay #2: Analysis and Interpretation of Visual Materiality in a Poem

2022-10-28

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Week 11: Cyborg Poets

2022-10-31

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Weeks 12-13: Meaningful Interactivity

2022-11-07

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Week 14: Hacking and Preserving Digital Poetry

2022-11-21

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Weeks 15-16: History and Politics of E-Poetry

2022-11-28

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Essay #3: Analysis and Interpretation of an E-Poem

2022-11-28

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Fall 2022 Shutdown

2022-12-12

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