ENGL 355 - Twenty- and Twenty-First Century Poetry

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

In-depth study of selected Anglophone poets. The course may focus on particular eras, schools, topics, and theories of prosody, with consideration of identity groups or locations.

Topic for 2021/22a: Contemporary Native American Poets. (Same as AMST 355) In our course, we learn to read and understand contemporary North American Indigenous poets through Decolonial, American Indian Literary Nationalist, Indigenous Transnationalist, and tribally-specific frameworks. We examine a broad range of poets within Native American Studies approaches in order to detect how poetry can act as a vehicle of social, political, and cultural transformation. We also study the way sovereignty, Indigenous feminisms, and decolonizing possibilities score the activism of our present era. Spanning generations, poets in the course include Layli Longsoldier, Natalie Diaz, Orlando White, Joy Harjo, Wendy Rose, Kimberly Blaeser, Luci Tapahonso, Allison Hedge Coke, Gordon Henry, Simon Ortiz, Adrian Louis, Chrystos, Deborah Miranda, dg okpik and others. Molly McGlennen.

This course satisfies the REGS requirement for the English major.

One 2-hour period.

Course Format: CLS