Schedule

Week 1: Aug 27: Introduction    Read Me First
(Week 2: Sept 3: Labor Day: No Class)

Weeks 3-8: Do We Talk It? Or Do We Talk About It?
Week 3: Sept 10: African-American Poetry, From New Negro to Black Arts (& Beyond) Reading
Week 4: Sept 17: Jazz poetry: Nathaniel Mackey  / Exam #1 passed out Reading
Week 5: Sept 24: Write Yourself Out of the Box: Harryette Mullen  Reading
Week 6: Oct 1: Speaking for / Speaking in / History: Kamau Brathwaite / Exam #1 Due  Reading
(Week 7: Fall Break: Class will not meet on October 8, nor on October 10)
Week 8: Oct 15: A Gentle Cacophony: Edwin Torres / Paper #1 Due  Reading    Paper guidelines

Weeks 9-11: Is It Language? Is It Place?  
Week 9: Oct 15: Poetry in Scots / Scots Poetry: An Introduction  Reading
Week 10: Oct 22: Ma Language Is Disgraceful: Tom Leonard & Vernacular Scots`  Reading
Week 11: Oct 29: This Queer Language Dying on the Tongues: W.N. Herbert, David Kinloch, & Dictionary Scots    Reading

Weeks 12-15: Language Carries
Week 12: Here/There: C.S. Giscombe / Paper #2 Due    Paper guidelines
Week 13: Who Occupies This Hyphen?: Asian-American Poetries since 1985
Week 14: Telling & Not Telling: Myung Mi Kim
Week 15: Writing Nation Writing Self: Theresa Hak Chung Cha / Exam #2 passed out

Exam Week: Exam #2 due