Week 4: Looking at Poems | The Materials of Poetry

Tuesday, September 10

In class:
- Lecture and discussion on poetic form and visual information
Assignment:
- In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read “Visual Poetry” “Concrete Poetry”
- Choose a poem from Singing School and write a brief analysis of how its form contributes to meaning. Post in our GroupMe before class on Thursday.

In class:
- Lecture and discussion on poetic form and visual information
Assignment:
- Explore UBU Web Visual Poetry and UBU Web Historical reading the work of at least 6 of the listed authors or collections.
- Create a Google document in this shared folder and briefly analyze 3 works of concrete and visual poetry focusing on how the visual form contributes to the idea presented. Post a link to your document, along with the titles of the works you've analyzed, in our GroupMe before class on Tuesday.