January
21-Course Introduction
23-Intro. to the Contemporary Poem
28-Form and Theory Review
30-Preliminary Workshop: "Patrick Ewing Takes a Foul Shot,"
Diane Ackerman (49);
"Immortality," Ai (56)
February
4-The Language of Poetry
6-"Under the Boathouse," David Bottoms (98); "In
a U-Haul North of Damascus," (102);
poems due
11-Preliminary Workshop: "Japanese Girl with Red Table,"
Stephen Dobyns (152); "Black
Silk," Tess Gallagher (202)
13-Workshop
18-Workshop
20-Student Conferences; poems due
25-Workshop
27-Workshop
March
4-Mardi Gras Holiday
6-"Night Song," Louise Gluck (237-38); "Salmon,"
Jorie Graham (256-57); poems due
11-Workshop
13-Student Conferences; poems due
18-"Where You Go When She Sleeps," T.R. Hummer (325-26);
"Night Dive," Don Jonson
(344)
20-Workshop; poems due
25-Student Conferences
27-Workshop; poems due
April
1-Student Conferences
3-" Thoreau," Rodney Jones (346); "The Floating
Candles," Sydney Lea (370-72)
8-Workshop
10-Student Conferences; poems due
15-"To Laura Phelan," Leon Stokesbury (671); "Abandoned
House in Late Night," Chase
Twitchell (723)
17-Workshop
22-24-Spring Break
29-Student Conferences; Graduate Interpretive Papers
Due; Undergraduate Essay Due
May
1-Workshop
6-Poems for Discussion (Students' Choice)
8-Current Literary Market; Review for Final Exam (Final Portfolio
and Reading Diary due at
Final Exam)
Final Exam-May 15, 8:00-10:00