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(No prior knowledge is needed and anyone interested in learning about these important contemporary poetry movements is welcome)
DESCRIPTION:
Adapted from a seminar I taught at Columbia & NYU over the years, this is a close reading course in which we’ll study the history, canonical poems, and important poetic contributions of the Confessionals (Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell), the Beats (Ginsberg, Snyder, di Prima, Ferlinghetti, Waldman, etc), 1st and 2nd Generation New York School (O’Hara, Berrigan, Ashbery, Mayer, Notley, etc), and the San Francisco Renaissance (Spicer, Duncan, Rexroth, McClure, etc).
Readings will be sent to you ahead of each movement (curated and compiled by me), and you’ll have about a month’s time to read through them before we meet.
We will also make time to write works in the style of each movement and experiment with prompts that are generative, in addition to the readings. We will share these in class in the spirit of creation, not with an eye for workshopping.
Structure: 1/3 lecture, 1/3 discussion, 1/3 sharing our own works inspired by each movement.
(No prior knowledge is needed and anyone interested in learning about these important contemporary poetry movements is welcome)
DESCRIPTION:
Adapted from a seminar I taught at Columbia & NYU over the years, this is a close reading course in which we’ll study the history, canonical poems, and important poetic contributions of the Confessionals (Plath, Sexton, Berryman, Lowell), the Beats (Ginsberg, Snyder, di Prima, Ferlinghetti, Waldman, etc), 1st and 2nd Generation New York School (O’Hara, Berrigan, Ashbery, Mayer, Notley, etc), and the San Francisco Renaissance (Spicer, Duncan, Rexroth, McClure, etc).
Readings will be sent to you ahead of each movement (curated and compiled by me), and you’ll have about a month’s time to read through them before we meet.
We will also make time to write works in the style of each movement and experiment with prompts that are generative, in addition to the readings. We will share these in class in the spirit of creation, not with an eye for workshopping.
Structure: 1/3 lecture, 1/3 discussion, 1/3 sharing our own works inspired by each movement.