Week 2: Sept 7: Poetic Rhythm

Week 3: Sept 14: Syllable-stress Meter, Scansion, Theories of Metrical Meaning

Week 4: Sept 21: Stanza Form, Rhyme, Intro to Classical Poetics  /  Start small group workshop / Start handing in poems & scheduling conferences toward the first portfolio

Week 5: Sept 28: Poetic Closure, Poetic Structure  /  Workshop

Weeks 6-7: Discourse, Subjectivity, & the Romantic Speaker

Week 6: Oct 5: Poetry as Discourse  /   Midterm exam distributed

Fall Break: No class on Oct 12.

Week 7: Oct 19: Romanticism: What was it? What is it?  /  Workshop  /  Midterm due  /   
No conferences until portfolios & midterms are graded

Weeks 8-10: Free Verse & Its Kinfolk

Week 8: Oct 26: Roots of Free Verse  /  Workshop  /  Portfolio due

Week 9: Nov 2: Phrasing, "Parsing Meter", & Syllabics  /  Workshop

Week 10: Nov 9: Panel Discussions: Free Verse Prosody & Line
Start handing in poems & scheduling conferences toward the second portfolio

Weeks 11-13: The Visual in the Verbal

Week 11: Nov 16: Typography as Syntax, the Ideogram, the Material Page  /  Workshop

Week 12: Nov 23: Translating Visual Art Techniques: Cubism & Collage /  Workshop

Week 13: Nov 30: Visual & Concrete Poetry  /  Workshop or in-class writing

Week 14: Dec 7: Panel Discussions: Genres & Modes /  Portfolio due  /  Final exam distributed

Exam Date: Dec 14: Final exam due at 7:30 p.m.