Ideas for Poetry Class this summer

Experimental Performance and Poetry

Using experimental performance as a lens for analysis,

notions of embodiment, the cinematic gaze, ritual, anthropology, masks, etc.

looking at experimental works by New York School Poets, eh



The Poetics of Technology

History of technology and poetics (from Frankenstein to ...)

How certain kinds of technology have pervaded contemporary and traditional works. We will learn to write poems taking into about the technologies of writing and the technologies of thought available to us.


Animal Poems: reading and writing poems about animals


We will look at past and present poems about animals, comparing how different poets aproach animals in terms of their biology, ecology, myth, etc