Tuesday, November 12

In class

• Discussion of Objectivist poets and Louis Zukofsky's poetry (resource)
  • A
  • Objectivist Special Issue of Poetry (February 1931)
  • "To my wash stand"
  • Zukofsky at PennSound

Assignment

• Read the chapter on Lorine Niedeker in our textbook.
• Write a a brief post on in which you discuss her poetry in the context of Objectivism.

Thursday, November 14

In Class

• Discussion of Lorine Niedeker's poetry
• The end of Modernism

Assignment

• Read the Introduction chapter for Digital Modernism by Jessica Pressman (access through Library)
• Explore the poems in Memory Slam 2.0 by Nick Montfort
• Write a brief post in which you discuss two works from Memory Slam in the context of digital modernism.