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Hi Everyone,

Please keep working on your final assignment. I am extending the deadline for this essay till Monday, Dec. 20. If you get your essay loaded on to googledocs before this, I’m happy to review it for you. Email me at mnoonan@citytech.cuny.edu regarding any questions.

As a reminder, for your final essay assignment, I ask that you choose a poet from the Poetry Foundation website and discuss 2-3 of his or her poems in cultural and/or biographical context. Alternately, choose 2-3 from on the the site’s interesting collections.

Here is a sample student essay: HERE

Upload your essay: HERE

Recommended Collections:

Poems of Protest

Native American Poetry

LatinX Poetry

LGBTQ Poetry

Poems of Islamic Culture

Poetry and Feminism

Langston Hughes Biography

Modernist Art Sells For Millions

Robert Frost

Biography

TheRoadNotTaken

ASSIGNMENT REMINDER:

Formal Assignment #1: Personal Poetry Collection (with reflections)

Assemble your selected poems and edited posts into a single file.

Title: “YOURLASTNAMEPoetryCollection”

Upload a draft of this assignment to our GoogleDrive by this week.

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1. Robin Williams in Dead Poet’s Society (students recite Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain”)

2. An Introduction to Modernism

3. GROUP DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR “LOVE SONG”

4. Modernist Journals Project

5. HOMEWORK: Post a 1-2 paragraph response to a poem by a Modern Poet or a Modern Magazine that interests you. Feel free to choose a poet from the Harlem Renaissance or from elsewhere on the Poetry Foundation Site. This will be due in two weeks (Tues. 11/23). Eventually this will become Assignment #2.

EXTRA CREDIT EVENT:

Consider attending “The Soho Memory Project” discussion (Tues. 11/16 1-2 pm)

A discussion on Zoom of the SoHo Memory Project Documentary with City Tech Professor Josh Kapusinski (COMD, Moving Pixels Club), Jonathan Baez (City Tech alum and cinematographer), and Or Szyflingier (alum and director).

Consider reviewing the accompanying article and video:

• Kyle Spencer, “The Memory-Keeper of SoHo” (2015)
• Or Szyflingier and Jonathan Baez, “The SoHo Memory Project” (2020)

I will offer extra credit for attending this event.

EVENT ZOOM LINK: 

Preserving and Telling a New York Story (Tues., Nov 16 1-2pm)https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87040228416?pwd=UnNHMzRSSU1IQzVhZXoxWkZHZUg3UT09

Meeting ID: 870 4022 8416

Passcode: 175967

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ASSIGNMENT REMINDER:

Formal Assignment #1: Personal Poetry Collection (with reflections)

Assemble your selected poems and edited posts into a single file.

Title: “YOURLASTNAMEPoetryCollection”

Upload a draft of this assignment to our GoogleDrive by Tues., Nov. 9

Include:

1. Edward Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem” (Comment on One Section)
2. Your response to a selection from Robert Pinsky’s “Favorite Poem Project”
3. Mad-Lib Metaphor Poem
4. Response to a Shakespearian Sonnet (include the poem)
5. Response to a “Romantic” Poem (include the poem)
6. Response to a poem or selection from Walt Whitman
7. Response to a poem by Emily Dickinson (include poem)
8. Response to a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
9. Substitute one of the above with a response to a poem by Phyliss Wheatley, Rumi, and/or Arooj Aftab

USE YOUR OWN VOICE DRAWING FROM LESSONS LEARNED FROM THIS CLASS

For a review of poetic devices see: Elements of Poetry 

Here are the readings:

Edward Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem”  (in 16 brief sections)

Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project 

“Learning About Figurative Language” (for “Metaphor Mad-Lib” poem) 

Shakespeare 101

The Romantic Poets

Declaration of Independence

Phyliss Wheatley

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

Documentary: “In Search of Walt Whitman”

Last week ,we read the biography of world-reknown, Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman and reviewed some of his work. Whitman’s influence on modern poets is omnipresent. Here, for example, is a new poem by Billie Collins published this month in The Atlantic Magazine: “Ode to Joy”

For this class (and next), let’s discuss the equally impressive poets: Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe.

Here is Poe’s “The Raven”  (read by Christopher Lee)

Interestingly, Poe spent his last years in the Bronx in a cottage that remains a museum (and a great place to visit).  Please watch this video of his years there.

Watch: Stevie Nicks sings Poe’s “Annabel Lee”

Formal Assignment #1: Personal Poetry Collection (with reflections)

Assemble your selected poems and edited posts into a single file.

Title: “YOURLASTNAMEPoetryCollection”

Upload a draft of this assignment to our GoogleDrive by Tues., Nov. 9

Include:

1. Edward Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem” (Comment on One Section)
2. Your response to a selection from Robert Pinsky’s “Favorite Poem Project”
3. Mad-Lib Metaphor Poem
4. Response to a Shakespearian Sonnet (include the poem)
5. Response to a “Romantic” Poem (include the poem)
6. Response to a poem or selection from Walt Whitman
7. Response to a poem by Emily Dickinson (include poem)
8. Response to a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
9. Substitute one of the above with a response to a poem by Phyliss Wheatley, Rumi, and/or Arooj Aftab

USE YOUR OWN VOICE DRAWING FROM LESSONS LEARNED FROM THIS CLASS

For a review of poetic devices see: Elements of Poetry 

Here are the readings:

Edward Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem”  (in 16 brief sections)

Robert Pinsky’s Favorite Poem Project 

“Learning About Figurative Language” (for “Metaphor Mad-Lib” poem) 

Shakespeare 101

The Romantic Poets

Declaration of Independence

Phyliss Wheatley

Walt Whitman

Emily Dickinson

Edgar Allan Poe

Documentary: “In Search of Walt Whitman”