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Welcome English 140H Students! This blog is a place for your to post responses to the reading and engage with larger questions about poetry and poetic that arise in your reading, writing and thinking...
View ArticleMark Doty poems for wednesday’s class: what to read
For wednesday we will discuss lines, stanzas and the other poems from our cancelled class. ALSO we will read and talk about Mark Doty’s poems in preparation for his poetry reading wednesday night. Read...
View ArticleMark Doty reading
To think about re: Mark Doty reading: 1. what was it like to hear him read vs. read his poems? 2. What was gained by having an interview follow a reading? 3. Was the poetry reading experience what you...
View ArticleStarting Formal Poetry: A Question
This week the topic is very open: talk about one of the poems assigned for tomorrow. Think about the formal choices the poet has made: line breaks, stanza breaks, choice of form. How would the poem be...
View ArticleLangston Hughes
Choose a theme that runs through several of LH’s poems and discuss, being as specific as you can–quote from the poems.
View ArticleRita Dove’s Thomas and Beulah
What is your first reaction to reading Rita Dove’s book Thomas and Beulah? If there is the first time you’ve read a single volume of poetry, how was the experience of reading many poems in a specific...
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