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F19 - ENGL071B.01 - Lyric Poem in English
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Daisy Fried's poem about school sex ed classes
Daisy Fried's poem about school sex ed classes
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Daisy Fried Girl w Tampon.pdf
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◄ Chen Chen, “Poem in Noisy Mouthfuls”
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WordPress Blog for English 71B
sample (anonymous) A papers
BLOG AND PRESENTATION GUIDELINES
The Lyric in English: 71B course description and syllabus assignments
Prof. Schmidt's tips on the basics of "scanning" a poem's meter, beats, sounds
English 71B student presentation schedule
Re using the Blog for 71B:
ENGLISH 71B BLOG
the above is an alternative blog I'm leaving here in case the WordPress blog above doesn't work well
Announcements
Hirshfield poem
Tony Hoagland, ch. 3 from The Art of Voice
Prof. Schmidt's basics on sonnet form, meter, sounds, etc.
a Sonnet Worksheet
A short essay of mine on James Merrill, plus a sonnet of his
Marilyn Hacker, a sonnet
sample sonnets from Terrance Hayes
Prof. Schmidt simple tips for listening how words and music interact
Joni Mitchell, "The Last Time I Saw Richard"
the medieval "Lord Randall" ballad, plus Bob Dylan's reworking of it
Dorothy Fields vs. Bruno Mars
PAPER #1: UPLOAD HERE (as a Word document)
Milosz on poetry
Adrienne Rich, on poetry in dark times
Audre Lorde on poetry and activism (links), plus her poem "Litany for Survival"
Audre Lorde, "Coal" [poem]
Juan Felipe Herrera on poetry and compassion
Juan Felipe Herrera's poem
Rachel Tzvia Back: essay
Philip Metres essay
Nielsen essay (concluding paragraphs)
2 short essays by David Trinidad and Keith Tuma on poetry & crisis
Danez Smith, "Dinosaurs in the Hood"
Ada Limón, "The Leash"
Ada LImón, "A New National Anthem"
Layli Long Soldier, 2 poems from her collection Whereas
Linda Gregg, "There She Is"
Wislawa Szymborska, "Some People"
Warshan Shire, "Conversations About Home (At the Deportation Centre"
Joy Harjo, "How to Write a Poem in a Time of War"
Tony Hoagland, "America"
Solmaz Sharif, "Social Skills Training"
Tony Hoagland, chapter 7
quick notes on Milton excerpt from Paradise Lost (ignore the link and read what's below)
quick notes on the Wordsworth excerpt from The Prelude, book 13 (concluding book) — ignore this link and read what's below
Here's a copy of the "scanning iambic pentameter" exercises handed out in class on Oct. 9
Ted Chiang's short story "The Great Silence"
Avery Slater essay
W. S. Merwin, 3 short poems about the 6th Great Extinction of species in the history of Earth
Merwin, "After the Dragonflies"
Merwin, "For a Coming Extinction"
4 Nature poems by Mary Oliver (pdf)
Gisela Ullyatt, "Buddhist Mindfulness in Mary Oliver's Poetry"
Ross Gay, "To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian" [in Philadelphia]
Ross Gay reads his "To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian" [in Philadelphia]
Ofelia Zepeda's "Riding the Earth"
3 poems by Peter Schmidt (yours truly)
Schmidt, "Chicxulub"
Quick background reading
Schmidt, "Rexx Imperator"
UPLOAD PAPER #2 USING THIS FOLDER
Martín Espada, "Alabanza"
Khaty Xiong, "On Teaching My Son How to Mourn"
Ciaran Carson, “Claude Monet, _The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil_, 1880”
Peter Schmidt, notes on the Ode
Keats' "Grecian Urn" read by Paris Stroud
Keats' "Grecian Urn" read by Tom O'Bedlam
Maya Angelou, "Phenomenal Woman"
Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise"
3 brief odes, by 3 Afro-Latinx poets (pdf)
Richard Blanco, "'El Florida' Room"
Amit Majmudar, "Ode to a Drone"
David Hernández, "Dear Death"
Janice Harrington, "Ode to the Bedpan"
Greg Orr's and Sam Hamill's poems on poetry
Chen Chen, “Poem in Noisy Mouthfuls”
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, 2 poems
Noel Quiñones, "Carving / Tuning"
Mary Jean Chan, her poem entitled " // "
Lesson Plan Guidelines
UPLOAD FOLDER FOR YOUR FINAL PROJECT
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, 2 poems ►