LLST
3025

RFW Poetry

Eugene Lang College Lib Arts: Literary Studies

Liberal Arts
Undergraduate Course
Degree Students
RFW: Poetry in Performance
Fall 2023
Taught By: Benjamin Krusling
Section: A

CRN: 8764

Credits: 4

Seeking greater aesthetic, emotional, and political freedom, poets often innovate the relationship between the poem and the page. What is gained when the poetic text moves in other dimensions? What does it mean to perform our many selves in the act of writing? What can we understand about the word through the scene or the stage? This Reading for Writers seminar will look at texts that enable us to think about the modes in which our writing can sound. While our focus will be on close-reading, analyzing, and writing “poetry” as such, we will also look at creative examples of cinema, drama, and contemporary digital artwork to explore this expanded sense of the poetic text. During the semester, students will be required to attend a few poetry performances and complete a final performance project of some kind, in consultation with the instructor. Texts will include: Amiri Baraka, Alvin Lucier, Bertolt Brecht, Gertrude Stein, Charles Reznikoff, Kamau Brathwaithe, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Ntozake Shange, Langston Hughes, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Fred Moten, Tytti Heikkinen, John Wieners, Wanda Coleman, and more.

After the first week of the semester, permission of the instructor will be required in order to register for this course.

College: Eugene Lang College Lib Arts (LC)

Department: Literary Studies (LIT)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Seminar (R)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 18

Add/Drop Deadline: September 11, 2023 (Monday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: November 19, 2023 (Sunday)

Seats Available: Yes

* Seats available but reserved for a specific population.

Status: Closed*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 5:24pm EST 12/5/2023

Meeting Info:
Days: Monday, Wednesday
Times: 4:00pm - 5:40pm
Building: Johnson/Kaplan 66 West 12th
Room: 713
Date Range: 8/28/2023 - 12/11/2023
RFW: Poetry and Collaboration
Spring 2024
Taught By: Kristin Prevallet
Section: A

CRN: 10845

Credits: 4

READING FOR WRITERS: Poetry and Collaboration. In this Reading for Writers seminar we will focus on the visual, spoken, and sonic qualities of poetic texts. We will focus on close-reading, analyzing, and writing “poetry” as an expanding and collaborative form; we will find inspiration in poets who, in seeking to disrupt the enabling metaphors of the status quo, enter into collaboration with artists and musicians. We will work to expand, disrupt, and often challenge the relationship between image and text, reader and writer, audience and performer. What happens when a poetic composition moves into other dimensions? What does it mean to perform our many selves in the act of writing or making? What can we understand about language when we experience it as sonic or visual landscape? We will also look at creative examples of cinema and contemporary art to explore this expanded sense of the poetic text. During the semester, students will be required to attend a few sonic poetry performances. Aside from close reading and critical/creative responses, students will complete a final performance project of some kind, in consultation with the instructor. Texts/compositions will include: Janice Lowe, Cecilia Vicuña, Ana Mendieta, Edwin Torres, Amiri Baraka, Andrew Whiteman, Antoin Artaud, Kamau Brathwaithe, M. NourbeSe Philip, The Last Poets, Maya Deren, Langston Hughes, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Fred Moten, Renee Gladman, Layli Long Soldier, and more.

After the first week of the semester, permission of the instructor will be required in order to register for this course.
Must be enrolled in one of the following Classifications: Junior or Senior.

College: Eugene Lang College Lib Arts (LC)

Department: Literary Studies (LIT)

Campus: New York City (GV)

Course Format: Seminar (R)

Modality: In-Person

Max Enrollment: 18

Add/Drop Deadline: February 4, 2024 (Sunday)

Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 16, 2024 (Tuesday)

Seats Available: Yes

* Seats available but reserved for a specific population.

Status: Open*

* Status information is updated every few minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 5:24pm EST 12/5/2023

Shared Capacities Work in Complex Systems
Meeting Info:
Days: Tuesday, Thursday
Times: 4:00pm - 5:40pm
Building: Eugene Lang 65 W11th
Room: 262
Date Range: 1/23/2024 - 5/9/2024