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English 53, Modern American Poetry // GENERAL RESOURCE MATERIALS.
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Billie Holiday sings God Bless the Child
Billie Holiday sings God Bless the Child
Billie Holiday sings God Bless the Child
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English 53 syllabus and info on course requirements (NOTE: DOWNLOAD THIS FILE TO YOUR COMPUTER; IT HAS ALL THE WEEKLY READING ASSIGNMENTS, INCLUDING WORKING LINKS FOR ACCESS TO ONLINE MATERIALS.) For other online links, see the materials posted below.
creative projects sign-up list
Who's in which English 53 Facebook group
Genius.com link
Our English 53 / Modern American Poetry Facebook link
General Guidelines for your Papers
An A essay, on Frank O'Hara's "A Step Away from Them"
An A essay, on Williams' "Descent"
An A essay, on Angel Haze and Drake
an A essay on Dickinson
an A essay on Plath's "Tulips"
4 poems by Emily Dickinson
Whitman, There Was a Child Went Forth
Emerson, The Poet (excerpts and commentary)
info on Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Sister O M Terrell sings Swing Low Sweet Chariot
Maya Angelou reads "Harlem Hopscotch" (1960s)
Thomas William Jones III, "Prison Life"
Luís Valdez, "In Lak'ech: You are my Other Me"
O'Hara on his poetry
The poet Adrienne Rich on why poetry is necessary (mp3 file)
Wallace Stevens, "The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain"
Charles Bukowski, "Bluebird"
Marianne Boruch, "Reading in Bed"
more info on Valdez's banned poem
Whitman, "Song of Myself," sections 4-6
Dickinson, poem #1463
Merrill's Christmas Tree
Arthur Sze, "Before Completion" (excerpt)
Ellen Bass, "What Did I Love?"
Kevin Young, "Crowning"
Daisy Fried, Women's Poetry
RR Phillips readings
Dilruba Ahmed, "Ghazal"
A fine New Yorker essay on Plath
Julia de Burgos, "To Julia de Burgos"
Espada, Alabanza
Gloria Anzaldúa, "To Live in the Borderlands"
Sandra Cisneros, 5 poems
Anne Carson, "Pronoun Envy"
link to anthology site on Angel Island poetry and background info
link to anthology site on Japanese American haiku written in WWII internment camps
on 2 elements of many haiku: the "cutting word" and the seasonal reference
Patricia Lockwood, The Rape Joke
Claudia Rankine, excerpt from Citizen
Jamaal May, Man Matching Description
PS's tips on listening to words & music together
on hip hip rhyming, prosody, etc.
PS's Tips on poetic meter & music
"Who owns hip-hop?: 'Cultural appropriation' debate rages on"
Last Poets, E Pluribus
Queen Latifah and Daddy-O, The Pros
Lauryn Hill, Doo Wop (That Thang)
Erykah Badu, Appletree
digable planets, Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
Ice Cube and Yo-Yo, "It's a Man's World" lyrics
Tupac and Lee Morgan mashup
Border Songs folder
Calle 13, Adentro
Maria Isa
Tres Delinquentes
Jay-Z and Eminem, "Renegade" lyrics
Beyoncé, Flawless
Mos Def, Hip Hop (1999)
Nas, Jungle Jay
Sleater-Kinney, Jumpers
S-K interview 2015
Kate Davis covers "All About That Bass"
Taylor Swift, Shake It Off
Ariana Grande with Iggy Azalea, Problem
Grimes, Oblivion
Margaret Cho, Eat Shit and Die
Yuna
You may upload paper #1 here
Ginsberg reading part of Howl, Chicago 1959
O'Hara on his poetry
Frank O'Hara, Having a Coke with You (text)
O'Hara reads Having a Coke with You
Vendler on O'Hara
Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred (1 of 2)
Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred (2 of 2)
Jayne Cortez performs "I Am New York City"
Muriel Rukeyser, Ballad of Orange and Grape (NYC)
Rukeyser reflecting on the Beats
Ginsberg's reading list for a class on the history of the Beats
Recent brief New Yorker essay on Frost
Frost and Stevens--musical exercises
Mapping U.S. Nature poetry from Emerson to Frost & Stevens to Ammons and others
PS's tips on listening to words & music together
Billie Holiday lyrics to 2 songs
Billie Holiday sings Billie's Blues
Lead Belly, "Jim Crow Blues" (1930s)
Richard Lalli Sings Fascinating Rhythm
Richard Lalli Sings What Is This Thing Called Love?
Forte on What Is This Thing Called Love? (Porter) and How Little We Know (Carmichael)
Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics to 2 songs (see also Forte pdf)
Fred Astaire sings the Way You Look Tonight, from the movie Swing Time (includes lyric + link)
Cole Porter's lyrics for I Get a Kick Out of You
Frank Sinatra sings I Get a Kick Out of You
Sondheim, Into the Woods lyrics (2 songs: Stay With Me and On the Steps of the Palace)
Sondheim, Stay With Me
Sondheim, On the Steps of the Palace
Miranda, lyrics for opening song from In the Heights
Miranda, In the Heights, opening song introducing the characters
Miranda, lyrics for Breathe, from In the Heights
Miranda, Mandy González sings Breathe
Miranda, lyrics to $96,000, from In the Heights
Miranda, the In the Heights ensemble sings $96,000
live music video: recording $96,000 (for the In the Heights cast album)
Hank Williams, "Jambalaya" (1952)
Patsy Cline sings I Fall to Pieces
Patsy Cline lyrics, I Fall to Pieces
Chuck Berry, "Johnny B. Goode" 1958
Chuck Berry, "Johnny B. Goode" lyrics
Wikipedia page on "Johnny B. Goode"
Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues 1965
Bob Dylan's 2015 talk on how his lyrics were inspired by studying earlier songwriters
Joni Mitchell's Little Green (m4a)
Joni Mitchell, 2 songs' lyrics
Aretha Franklin, Respect
James Brown, "The Funky Drummer"
Marvin Gaye, What's Going On 1971
5 facts you didn't know about Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On"
Bruce Springsteen performs Thunder Road (solo acoustic, live)
Patti Smith, 25th Floor (from her second album, Easter 1978)
Moore and H.D. readings
Some notes on Moore's "Paper Nautilus"
Eliot's music in 4 Quartets: a sampling
Pound & Crane--sample lines to scan
Anthony Hopkins reads "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
"Tom O'Bedlam" reads "Burnt Norton," from Eliot's Four Quartets
an argument for strict meter and rhyme
James Weldon Johnson, "The Creation"
Williams, "Dedication for a Plot of Ground"
Williams statement
Williams' "Poem (as the cat)"
cat vs dog vs human footprints
Williams translates Neruda's "Ode to My Socks," 1958
Leyla McCalla sings 2 poems of Langston Hughes
"Too Blue" music
"Love Again Blues"
Meta DuEwa Jones on Hughes
Upload final version of paper #2 here
Final Paper Uploading Link
Lead Belly, "Jim Crow Blues" (1930s) ►