Tuesday, November 19

In class

• Discussion of Digital Modernism by Jessica Pressman (access through Library)
• Discussion of Memory Slam 2.0 by Nick Montfort

Assignment

• Read the Wikipedia entry on Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (YHCHI)
• Read DAKOTA by Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
• Read "Speed Reading: SUPER-POSITION AND SIMULTANEITY in Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries’s Dakota and Ezra Pound’s Cantos" Chapter 3 in Digital Modernism.
• Explore yhchang.com
• Write a a brief post on in which you discuss how YHCHI's poetry is Modernist.

Thursday, November 21

In Class

• Discussion of YHCHI's poetry
  • "The Last Day of Betty Nknomo"
  • "Bust Down the Doors!"
• "Sign Language" by Tom Konyves
• "Right Action" by Franz Ferdinand and Jonah Odell
• "Thoughts Go" by David Knoebel

Assignment

• Read:
  • "Seattle Drift" by Jim Andrews
  • "Slipping Glimpse" by Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo
  • "Game, Game, Game, and Again Game" by Jason Nelson
  • "Emblem/as" by Tina Escaja
• Write a post in which you discuss how these works innovate in their use of poetic form in a way that registers as Modernist. How does form shape the content? Post before class on Tuesday.