Sunday, January 4, 2009

Course Description


l-r: (standing) Patsy Southgate, Bill Berkson, John Ashbery; (seated) Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch

ENGL 202 – 003: Topics in Literature: The New York School of Poetry


We’ll study the historical development and evolution of The New York School from its 1950s core of John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler through to a second generation of 1960s poets, including Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, Bernadette Mayer, Joe Brainard, Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh, and on to those contemporary poets who continue to redefine New York School poetics in . Other topics discussed might include Donald Allen’s The New American Poetry: 1945-1960, The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, the small press tradition, queer poetics, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry and the anthology wars.

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