English 891M - Sem-Form &Theory of Poetry

This course will focus on 10 individual books of poetry. Some of the books for the seminar will include a researched based project: Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers; political invective: Sean Bonney, Letters to the Firmament; Caribbean Anglophone diaspora: Mark McMorris, Entrepot; and eco-poetics: Juliana Spahr, This Connection of Everyone with Lungs; among others. Seminar members will be asked to write a one-page response to each of the books each week and be ready for lively discussion. Satisfies MFA Contemporary Poetry requirement.

This class is open to English graduate students only.