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• Modern Poetry — Open Yale Courses

• Modern Poetry with Professor Langdon Hammer

  About the Course This course covers the body of modern poetry, its characteristic techniques, concerns, and major practitioners. The authors discussed range from Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, to Stevens, Moore, Bishop, and Frost with additional lectures on the poetry of World War One, Imagism, and the Harlem Renaissance. Diverse methods of literary criticism are employed, such as historical, biographical, and gender criticism. view class sessions >> Course Structure: This Yale College course, taught on campus twice per week for 50 minutes, was recorded for Open Yale Courses in Spring 2007.

  About Professor Langdon Hammer Langdon Hammer, chairman of the Department of English at Yale, earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from Yale. He is the author of Hart Crane and Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism and editor of O My Land, My Friends: The Selected Letters of Hart Crane and the Library of America’s, Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters. A Guggenheim Fellow, he is currently at work on a biography of the poet James Merrill. His reviews of new poetry and literary criticism regularly appear in The New York Times Book Review and other magazines, and he is poetry editor of The American Scholar.

How do you teach Web 2.0? With elit, of course. This post offers an elit work for each tool.A number of my colleagues (myself included) attempt to teach courses around Web 2.0 technologies. The idea is that if you can just get students to blog, bookmark, twitter, annotate, wiki, wink, and aggregate, they’ll be ready for the bold new world of networked software applications– building on their existing propensity for social networking, facebooking, IMing….What these skill and tool-based courses miss is an opportunity to enrich this education with some electronic literature.

Elit 2.0 (a guide to literary works on social software) at WRT: Writer Response Theory

And here are are a few more suggestions from the comments section at Mark Marino’s Writer Response Theory:

Twitter:

1. s[p]erver[se]_: 404 poetry_ [2007]
[also in: http://www.youownmenow.net/exhibition.php]

2. [started today] New Media Scotland’s new Twitterist-in-residence [2008]
http://twitter.com/mediascot

3. _Poetic Game Interventions [V.1]_ entitled _Twittermixed Litterature [2007]
http://www.well.com/user/jmalloy/elit/elit_software.html#mez
http://groups.google.com/group/leanmp/browse_thread/thread/a0fd5a15177c964d

Blogging:

1. cross.ova.ing ][4rm.blog.2.log][
http://netwurker.livejournal.com/ [since 2003]

2. ______dis[ap]posable_
http://disapposable.blogspot.com/ [2007]

Facebook:

1. _Tag Platform Poetry_ [2007]
[A Poetic/Social Network/ MMO/Visual Mashup where character screenshots of
of World of Warcraft Characters are imported into the Facebook. The photos in the respective albums are then tagged with poetic descriptions in the areas normally reserved for traditional photo labelling. These description lines are then aggregated at the bottom of each album to create a type of cross-plaform tagged poetry.]

Logos:

Antisocial Notworking: http://project.arnolfini.org.uk/projects/2008/antisocial/index.php

This news from Dr. Karen Schneider, English Department Head:

Hello all, Garrison Keillor is going to read one of Tom Hunley’s poems (”The Dental Hygienist” from Octopus) on the Writer’s Almanac on Oct. 25! Is that exciting, or what? Congratulations, Tom. And the department should get some pretty good press out of this. Hoorah

You can find more of Tom’s poetry here including “The Dental Hygienist” . You might also want to look here and don’t forget Tom’s imprint, Steel Toe Books. If you are in a more academic mood, you might want to check out Tom’s educational insights.

If you wish to read “The Dental Hygienist”, make it so after the jump.

(more…)

Dear All:
I know, I know, I haven’t a clue what “Besondere Traume” means,
but I do know that it is the title of a poem by our own intrepid world
traveler, Brooke Shafar, just accepted for publication in The Rectangle,
the literary journal of Sigma Tau Delta.
What a wonderful send-off to our recent graduate, who leaves this
Friday for a Fulbright year in Germany, after which she’ll return to
St. Louis to begin her doctoral studies at Washington University.
kudos and great good luck, Brooke!

P.S. My guess is that “Besondere Traume” is part of the local argot of
Brooke’s hometown of Taylorsville, Kentucky. But that’s only a guess.
Anybody more in the know than me?

From Dale Rigby via the creative writing list,

Hello all,

…as many of you know I’m working with both the Women Writers Conference
and the Affrilachian Poets (a Roots and Heritage Sponsored Event) to
promote some amazing literary opportunities within the next few weeks in
Lexington. They are all FREE and rare opportunities to be in the
combined company of so many amazing writers. Below is a brief outline
of what’s to come. If you are interested in the FREE writing workshops
space is limited, so please RSVP at this email adress, ASAP. Okay, onto
the schedule! Hope to see you soon….! Please forward this along to any
interested parties!

Bianca

*The Affrilachian Poets Reunion Events

**Thursday, September 4, 7 PM, Carnegie Center:* /New Member Induction
Reading /featuring: Norman Jordan of West, VA., Hasan Davis of Berea,
Makalani Bandeli of Louisville, Keith Wilson of Newport, KY, and Joy
Gonsalves of Lexington, KY

*Friday, September 5, 7 PM, Al’s Bar (6th and Limestone):* /Reunion
Reading/ featuring: Ricardo Nazario-Colon, Mitchell Douglas, Crystal
Nazario, Jude Mcpherson, Marta Miranda, Frank X Walker, Kelly Ellis,
Crystal Wilkinson, Bianca Spriggs (Open mic from 7:00-7:30 PM)

*Saturday, September 6, 12-5:00 PM, Central Library, 4th Floor
Conference Room: */Poetry and Fiction Workshops/ led by Kelly Ellis
(poetry 12:00-2:30 PM) and Crystal Wilkinson (fiction 2:30-5:00 PM)*

Women Writers Conference Event
*/(for further information on more free events from the WWC (including a
reading by Pulitzer Prize winner, Natasha Trethewey, and a reading by
key note author, Joyce Carol Oates), please log on to
www.thewomenwritersconference.org
)/*

Thursday, September 11, **Gypsy Slam, 6 PM, Victorian Square:* featuring
Samantha Thornhill, and women poets from around the region and country
including Denver, Milwaukee, Columbus, and Bowling Green. Open Mic
begins at 6:30 PM, Samantha Thornhill Featured at 7, Slam starts at 8
PM. $500 goes to the winner!

Dear All…

Jeff Fearnside has accepted a position to teach at Prescott College (in Prescott, Arizona), where he will also become the managing editor of their really fine literary journal Alligator Juniper (winner of the 2000 and 2003 AWP Prize for undergraduate literary magazines). Way to go, Jeff!

P.S. WKU writers will, well, be sending a piece or two the way of Alligator Juniper!

From Dale,

Dear All…please mark your calendars for 7 pm on May 1 for the
FANTASTIC gala to be held in support of Rise Over Run–check out the attached news
release to see what I mean!

Good Afternoon Creativewriting-list!

My name is Monique Gooch and I am Rise Over Run’s PR Coordinator. We have scheduled an event for May 1st and would like for everyone to be
in attendance! I am attaching a press release with this e-mail.
Thank you so much for your support of ROR! Have a great day!

~Monique Gooch~
VP of Membership Services

From Dale,

Please give congrats to Chelsea Beville! Her poem, “Red Power Ranger,” will be
appearing in the next edition of /Grab-A-Nickel.

From Dale Rigby via the Creativewriting listserv:

Per a welcome back, I want to share the good news that two WKU undergraduate poets have
work that will be appearing in the next edition of GRAB-A-NICKEL:

Sarah Durr, “What You Will See”

Also from Dale,

The following writing students have had one or more works accepted for
presentation at the the
International Sigma Tau Delta Convention this spring.

Like with the pic of Yao Ming on the cover of the current Newsweek, you could say that we are fast becoming a university with, yep, just as our PR folks remind us, “international reach”!

All painful puns the responsibility of Rigby and not the management.

This note from Dale Rigby:

Dear All…
Everybody who submitted was a winner. The judges choose the
following three
submitters for the top prizes this Sunday at our 11th Annual Jim Wayne
Miller
Celebration of Writing:
1st place: Cody Tucker
2nd place: Corey Bewley
3rd place: Bobby Deignan