Introduction : what makes poetry poetry and why are we so afraid of it? -- Poem discussion one : Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare -- More sonnets by William Shakespeare. Sonnet 18 ; Sonnet 20 ; Sonnet 73 ; Sonnet 116 -- Poem discussion two : Harlem dancer by Claude McKay -- More poems by writers of the Harlem Renaissance. The castaways, Claude McKay ; Tableau, Countee Cullen ; The weary blues, Langston Hughes ; Letter to my sister, Anne Spencer -- Poem discussion three : I, being born a woman and distressed, by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- More modern and contemporary sonnets. Poetics against the angel of death, Phyllis Webb ; Nothing in that drawer, Ron Padgett ; Sonnet #15, Alice Notley ; so'net I, Paul Dutton ; Sonnet for Bonnie, Darren Wershler-Henry ; Dim lady, Harryette Mullen -- Poem discussion four : The dance, by William Carlos Williams -- More ekphrastic poems. Young sycamore, William Carlos Williams ; Venus transiens, Amy Lowell ; Preciosilla, Gertrude Stein ; Why I am not a painter, Frank O'Hara ; from Pictograms from the interior of B.C., Fred Wah -- Poem discussion five : Ode on a Grecian urn, by John Keats -- More odes, apostrophes, addresses. Ode to a nightingale, John Keats ; A supermarket in California, Allen Ginsberg ; July man, Margaret Avison ; To my twenties, Kenneth Koch ; Late one night, Margaret Christakos -- Poem discussion six : The tyger, by William Blake -- More poems about animals. The lamb, William Blake ; The flea, John Donne ; A narrow fellow in the grass, Emily Dickinson ; A DOG, Gertrude Stein ; The shark, E.J. Pratt ; Bird-witted, Marianne Moore -- Poem discussion seven : r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r, by E.E. Cummings -- More concrete poems. Easter wings, George Herbert ; l(a, E.E. Cummings ; Forsythia, Mary Ellen Solt ; Cycle no. 22, bp Nichol ; In medias res, Michael McFee ; Love song, Margaret Christakos -- Poem discussion eight : Daddy, by Sylvia Plath -- More poems "for the ear." Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll ; God's grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins ; at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, South Carolina, 1989, Lucille Clifton ; Zong! #I, M. NourbeSe Philip ; Ravine, Louis Cabri -- Poem discussion nine : kitchenette building, by Gwendolyn Brooks -- More poems displaying the poetic force of syntax. When I heard the learn'd astronomer, Walt Whitman ; In a station of the Metro, Ezra Pound ; ASPARAGUS, Gertrude Stein ; since feeling is first, E.E. Cummings -- Rolling motion, Erin Mouré ; Monday, Lisa Robertson ; Winter, Mark Truscott -- Poem discussion ten : The three Emilys, by Dorothy Livesay -- More feminist poems. Prologue, Anne Bradstreet ; In an artist's studio, Christina Rossetti ; Sheltered garden, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) ; Blues spiritual for Mammy Prater, Dionne Brand ; Body politics, Louise Bernice Halfe -- A brief guide to meter -- How to write about poetry.
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