4:00-5:15P   MW   BH 345

In this section of H203, we will read seven books of poetry-three by
great, dead 20th century poets, and four by contemporaries whose work
promises to place them among the great dead poets of the future. The
writing required for the course will be poems-one for each poet we read
and discuss. On alternate weeks we will discuss student poems in a
writer's workshop format, so that the course will be equally divided
between reading and writing.

This course should interest tow types of students-poets, or future poets,
who wish to deepen and broaden their knowledge of contemporary poetry, and
readers and critics who wish to study the methods by which a poem is put
together.

Course texts:
Robert Frost		     ROBERT FROST'S POEMS
Elizabeth Bishop	     THE COMPLETE POEMS 1927-1979
Robert Hayden	     COLLECTED POEMS
Yusef Komunyakaa    MAGIC CITY
Lee Ann Roripaugh    BEYOND HEART MOUNTAIN
Lucia Perillo               THE OLDEST MAP WITH THE
NAME AMERICA
Billy Collins                PICNIC, LIGHTNING