Topic: Poetry and the Counterculture: Exploring the Raymond Danowski Library

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
2:30pm-5:30pm
Th
Callaway Center N116
Kevin Young. HAPW. 412872 TBA.

January 13, 2010- April 26, 2010

Prerequisites: None; just a willingness for students to explore their own interests and even experiments with forms, schools, and writers of the poetry of our time.

Semester Details:

In this workshop we will write and read poetry while exploring the 75,000 volumes of rare and modern poetry found in Emory’s own Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. We will focus our reading on the poetry of the postwar counterculture, from the Beats to Black Mountain to New York School, with emphasis on their legacy and responses to it in our own poetry. Part workshop, part archival work, students will emerge with a number of new poems and approaches to poems, and may have the opportunity to curate a show based on the collection as a final project.

Students should budget for photocopying.

This is a permission-only course. For instructions on the application process, please go to http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/atlas/index.html

Application form:  http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/students/courseapp.html






Required Textbooks, Articles, and Resources

  1. Moore, Honor, ed. Poems from the Women's Movement.
  2. Hoover, Paul, ed. Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology.
  3. Swanberg, Ingrid, ed. d.a. levy & the mimeograph revolution.
  4. Rich, Adrienne. Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose.
  5. Berrigan, Ted. The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan.
  6. Niedecker, Lorine. Collected Works.
  7. Kaufman, Bob. Cranial Guitar.

Recommended Textbooks, Articles, and Resources

  1. Ashbery, John. John Ashbery: Collected Poems, 1956-1987.
  2. Rothenberg, Jerome and Pierre Joris, eds. Poems for the Millenium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Vol. 2: From Postwar to Millennium.
  3. Rothenberg, Jerome. A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing 1960-1980.

Grading

Assignment/ExamDetails% of Total Grade
Writing, reading and class participationStudents will be assessed on: the quality and timely turning in of weekly assignments and improvement over the course of the semester (60%), including the keeping of a commonplace book related to the course material; class participation (20%); and a final project, including selecting material for and mounting an exhibition in the library (20%).
Extracurricular activitiesStudents are required to attend on-campus readings and colloquia sponsored by the Creative Writing Program outside of class time.

The schedule of courses on O.P.U.S. is the official listing of courses, including days and times they meet and the General Education Requirements they satisfy. Students should use course descriptions as general guidelines. Course requirements, grading details, book lists, and syllabi are subject to change.