ENGL 365 - Studies in Contemporary Poetry

FDR: HL
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. Focused study of poetry in English from 1980 to the present. Topics vary but can include the role of place in contemporary writing or 21st-century poetry and performance. Depending on interest and department needs, readings may involve mainly U.S. authors or English-language poetry from other regions such as Ireland or the Pacific.

Winter 2022, ENGL 365A-01: Studies in Contemporary Poetry: Twenty-First Century Poetry (3). Prerequisite: Take one English course between 201 and 295, and one between 222 and 299. Place—imperiled by climate change—is enormously important to twenty-first century poetry in English, no matter where the writer lives. Students in this class will read and discuss ecopoetic work from Jamaica, Oceania, the U.S. South, and elsewhere. Because place and time are always mutually implicated, many of the readings situate their material in history as well as exploring contemporary environments. For the final project, students will each choose a spacetime and edit a digital anthology of poetry about it. (HL) Wheeler.