Monday, November 6
- In class
- Assignment
- In the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read entries on Prose, Verse, and Enjambment.
Wednesday, November 8
- In class
- Lecture on Prose, Verse, Enjambment, etc.
- Assignment
- In the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read entries on Visual Poetry, Concrete Poetry.
Friday, November 10
- Assignment
- In Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation, Read (Kindle Locations: 239-331):
- At Last the New Arriving
- There I Was Unrequited
- Talk
- For the Faint of Heart
- The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away
- We Fall in Love with Total Strangers
- Analyze the use of prose, verse, open and closed lines, and enjambment in the poem assigned to your table and one other (if absent, pick 2 poems).
- Post your brief analysis (1 paragraph per poem) in our Facebook Group by the end of class on Monday.