In Spring 2012 I will be teaching a graduate craft class at NYU, “The Long and Very Short of It.” Book list is as follows (CLICK ON THE TITLES FOR LINKS TO AMAZON):
James Schuyler’s Selected Poems
Robert Hass, The Essential Haiku
Bernadette Mayer, Midwinter Day
Wayne Koestenbaum, Model Homes
Frank Stanford, The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You
Claudia Rankine, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
Maggie Nelson, Jane: A Murder
Jennifer Tamayo, Red Missed Aches
In Fall 2011 I will be teaching an Advanced Undergraduate Poetry Workshop at NYU and an advanced poetry workshop at the 92nd Street Y.
Books (with Amazon Links–click on the titles)
Elyse Fenton, Clamor
Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour
Bradley Paul, The Animals All Are Gathering
Terrence Hayes, Lighthead
CD Wright, One With Others
DA Powell, Chronic
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
Eileen Myles, Sorry, Tree
Chelsea Minnis, Zirconia
Harmony Holiday, Negro League Baseball
Sabrina Orah Mark, Tsim Tsum
In Spring 2011 I taught Lines and Lineage: Contemporary American Poetry by Women (a graduate poetry craft class) at New York University.
Lines and Lineage Books:
As a group we will choose from the following:
I, AFTERLIFE: ESSAY IN MOURNING TIME BY KRISTEN PREVALLET
DEPOSITION BY KATIE FORD (GRAYWOLF, 2004)
THE HEAVEN SENT LEAF BY KATY LEDERER (BOA, 2008)
THE KING BY REBECCA WOLFF (NORTON, 2009)
OVERLORD BY JORIE GRAHAM
DEPOSITION BY KATIE FORD
BODY CLOCK BY ELENI SIKELIANOS
GRAVE OF LIGHT BY ALICE NOTLEY
THE GARDEN ROOM BY JOY KATZ (TUPELO, 2006)
Swallow by Miranda Field (Mariner Books, 2002)
The End of Beauty by Jorie Graham (Ecco Press, 1999)
Selected Poems by Fanny Howe (University of California Press, 2000)
Saga/ Circus by Lyn Hejinian (Omnidawn, 2008)
Unraveling at the Name by Jenny Factor (Copper Canyon, 2002)
Cornucopia by Molly Peacock (Norton, 2004)
Anything you can get by Kristin Prevallet
IOVIS by Anne Waldman (Coffee House Press, 1992)
Duende by Tracy K. Smith (Graywolf, 2007)
Satan Says by Sharon Olds (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980)
CLICK HERE FOR THE LINES AND LINEAGE SYLLABUS.
Fall 2010 I taught a graduate poetry workshop at NYU. We read:
MATTHEW ZAPRUDER, COME ON ALL YOU GHOSTS
ERIKA MEITNER, IDEAL CITIES: POEMS
JULIE CARR, SARAH – OF FRAGMENTS AND LINES
CATHERINE BARNETT, INTO PERFECT SPHERES SUCH HOLES ARE PIERCED
BRIAN TEARE, PLEASURE
THOMAS SAYERS ELLIS, SKIN, INC.: IDENTITY REPAIR POEMS
CATHY PARK HONG, DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION: POEMS
JOSHUA MARIE WILKINSON, POETS ON TEACHING
