Schedule
I will be updating this page throughout the quarter. All changes will be
announced in class, but please check here often to be sure you are on track.
Week 1 — Getting Situated
Thu 09/28
Reading:
Week 2 — Language, Poetry, & Politics
Tue 10/03
NewsHour Essayist Discusses Chances of Female President (transcript)
Readings due:
- Cameron, "Feminist Models of Language" [29]
- Kinnahan, "Lyric Conversations and Interventions" [40]
Assignments due:
- Provisional Theory of Language and Communication (one-pager)
Wed 10/04
Recommended event:
Thu 10/05
Go to (group study room) LB1-302 to watch Voices in Wartime. The
DVD is on reserve in the Media Center.
Week 3 — Lyn Hejinian: The Barbarism of Poetry
Mon 10/09
Assignments due:
- Group 1 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Tue 10/10
Readings due:
- One-pagers
- Hejinian, "Introduction" [6], "Rejection of Closure" [19], and "Barbarism" [19]
- Threadgold, "Rewriting Linguistic Poetics" [25]
- Spahr, "Resignifying Autobiography" [20]
Wed 10/11
Assignments due:
- Group 2 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Thu 10/12
Strategies for reading barbarians
Readings due:
- One-pagers
- Re-read as necessary
Handouts:
Week 4 — Lyn Hejinian: Making Sense of Experience
Mon 10/16
Assignment due:
- Group 3 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Tue 10/17
Reading due:
- Hejinian, My Life [115]
- One-pagers
Assignment due:
Wed 10/18
Assignment due:
- Group 1 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Thu 10/19
Photo project: Visual Barbarism
***BEFORE CLASS: check out a digital camera from the Media Center.***
Readings due:
Handouts:
Fri 10/20
Assignment due:
- Post your photo series by 5pm
- Option to submit revised one-pager
for written feedback by 5pm.
Week 5 — Susan Howe: Working Genre
Mon 10/23
Assignment due:
- Group 2 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Tues 10/24
Mapping Networks of Thinking
Readings due:
- One-pagers
- Schultz, "The Stutter in the Text" [18]
- Cohen, "Do Postmodern Genres Exist?" [15]
- Nicholls, "'The Pastness of Landscape'" [18]
Wed 10/25
Assignment due:
- Group 3 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Thu 10/26
Readings due:
- One-pagers
- Re-read Schultz, Cohen, and Nicholls as needed
In class:
Week 6 — Susan Howe: Historiography
Mon 10/30
Assignment due:
- Group 1 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Tues 10/31
Readings due:
- One-pagers
- Howe, Pierce-Arrow [144]
Wed 11/1
Assignment due:
- Group 2 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Thu 11/2
Readings due:
- One-pagers
- Re-read Howe, Schultz, Cohen, and Nicholls as needed
Fri 11/3
Assignment due:
- Submit required revised
one-pager for written feedback by 5pm.
Week 7 — Joan Retallack: The Poethical Wager
Mon 11/6
Assignment due:
- Group 3 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Tues 11/7
Readings due:
- Retallack, "Essay as Wager" [19]
- Taylor, "Screening Information" [36]
- Vickery, "Taking a Poethical Perspective" [12]
- One-pagers
Wed 11/8
Assignment due:
- Group 1 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Thu 11/9
Readings due:
- Re-read Retallack, Taylor, and Vickery as needed
- One-pagers
Week 8 — Joan Retallack: Presents & Persistence
Mon 11/13
Assignment due:
- Group 2 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Tues 11/14
Readings due:
- Retallack, Afterrimages [101]
- One-pagers
Wed 11/15
Assignment due:
- Group 3 post one-pagers to discussion board by 5pm
Thu 11/16
Readings due:
Fri 11/17
Assignment due:
- Post final paper proposals to the discussion board by 5pm
Sun 11/19
Assignment due:
- Respond to (at least 3) final paper proposals on the
discussion board by 5pm
Week 9 — Writing After
Tues 11/21
Readings due:
- Schultz, "Coda: 'Word Trade Center'" [8]
Assignment due:
- Revised final paper proposal
In class:
Thurs 11/23
NO CLASS — Happy Thanksgiving!
Week 10 — Poetry & Publics
Tues 11/28
All UW-B CLASSES CANCELLED due to weather
Readings due:
- Satterfield & Antczak, "American Pragmatism and the
Public Intellectual" [15]
- Optional: Altieri, "Some Problems about Agency" [31]
Handout:
Thurs 11/30
CLASS MEETING CANCELLED: please see email and/or Blackboard for instructions.
Assignment due:
Readings due:
- Reread and review as needed for your final paper
Fri 12/1
Assignment due:
Sat 12/2
Assignment due:
- Final paper drafts due via email by 5pm
Week 11 — Presenting our Work
Tues 12/5
We will meet in computer lab UW2-121.
In class:
Thurs 12/7
We will meet in computer lab UW2-121.
In class:
Finals Week
Wed 12/13
Assignments:
Final portfolios due by email before 5pm
