Class Schedule (Subject to Change)

Given the painful brevity of the quarter, we don't have the opportunity to spend quite as much time with each poet as I'd like, and there are a number of poets I've had to leave out entirely (Barbara Guest, Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, Lewis Warsh, Ron Silliman, any Third-Generation New York School poets), or address in one class (James Schuyler, Charles Bernstein, Hannah Weiner), however, I believe we'll still be able to get a full sense of the historical development of the New York School aesthetic, along with its evolution through a second generation of poets centered around the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in the Bowery, and the mid-70s innovation of Language Poetry. Though we'll move on from a given poet after a few classes, I hope you'll be able to keep their particular styles in mind in order to trace their influence from one author to the next.

Specific readings for each poet will be given in advance of their unit, and the poems themselves will be augmented with readings in Lehman's The Last Avant-Garde, recordings from PennSound and other materials.

Week 1

• Monday, Jan. 5: Introductions, syllabus, course outline and goals for the quarter
  
• Wednesday, Jan. 7: Introduction to the New York School
  
• Friday, Jan. 9: John Ashbery, Day 1
  

Week 2

• Monday, Jan. 12: John Ashbery, Day 2
  
• Wednesday, Jan. 14: John Ashbery, Day 3
  
• Friday, Jan. 16: John Ashbery, Day 4
  

Week 3

• Monday, Jan. 19: No Class: Martin Luther King Day
  
• Wednesday, Jan. 21: Frank O'Hara, Day 1
  
• Friday, Jan. 23: Frank O'Hara, Day 2
  

Week 4

• Monday, Jan. 26: Frank O'Hara, Day 3
  
• Wednesday, Jan. 28: Frank O'Hara, Day 4
  
• Friday, Jan. 30: Kenneth Koch, Day 1

Week 5

• Monday, Feb. 2: Kenneth Koch, Day 2
  
• Wednesday, Feb. 4: Kenneth Koch, Day 3
  
• Friday, Feb. 6: Kenneth Koch, Day 4
  

Week 6

• Monday, Feb. 9: Midterm Exam
  
• Wednesday, Feb. 11: James Schuyler; First Generation into Second Generation
  
• Friday, Feb. 13: Ted Berrigan, Day 1

Week 7

• Monday, Feb. 16: Ted Berrigan, Day 2
  
• Wednesday, Feb. 18: Ted Berrigan, Day 3
  
• Friday, Feb. 20: Ted Berrigan, Day 4 / Alice Notley, Day 1
  

Week 8

• Monday, Feb. 23: Alice Notley, Day 2
  
• Wednesday, Feb. 25: Alice Notley, Day 3
  
• Friday, Feb. 27: Alice Notley, Day 4
  

Week 9

• Monday, Mar. 2: Anne Waldman, Day 1
  
• Wednesday, Mar. 4: Anne Waldman, Day 2
  
• Friday, Mar. 6: Anne Waldman, Day 3 / Bernadette Mayer, Day 1

Week 10

• Monday, Mar. 9: Bernadette Mayer, Day 2
  
• Wednesday, Mar. 11: Bernadette Mayer, Day 3
  
• Friday, Mar. 13: New York School into Language Poetics; Charles Bernstein; Hannah Weiner
  

Final Paper: date, topics to be announced