Week 6: New York School

Monday, February 17

• In class:
  • Ai
  • Li Young Lee
  • Sharon Olds
• Assignment:
  • “Personism: A Manifesto” by Frank O’Hara
  • Frank O’Hara bio and poems (textbook preferred).
  • John Ashbery bio and poems (textbook preferred).

Wednesday, February 19

• In class:
  • Frank O’Hara - Why I Am Not a Painter, Poem
  • John Ashbery - Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape
  • NYC Trip and Alternate Assignments
• Assignment:
  • Attend or watch livestream for Wordhack on Thursday, Feb. 20 7-10pm.
  • If you can't, then explore the websites for the featured artists (links to their sites above).

Friday, February 21

• Asynchronous Online Class:
  • If you're in NYC, we will have a discussion about it at the Loft. No post necessary.
  • If not please post a 250-word discussion of how you see digital poetry by Constant Dullaart, Blake Andrews and Leonardo Flores expand the traditions of Modernism and Postmodernism.
  • Post in our forum before 1pm on Friday.
  • Respond to a classmate's post by Monday.
• Assignment:
  
  • "Language Poetry" in Princeton Encyclopedia
  • Read Charles Bernstein's bio and poems (textbook preferred).