Course details
Name: ENGL - 294
Title: WOMEN POETS
Section: 01
Semester: Spring - 2018
Credits: 3
Description:
The women poets we’ll read in this course are eccentric, eloquent, defiant, anti-romantic, and utterly fresh: they are smart alecks and write with pizzazz and panache. They revise male poems and male tropes and images; they focus on women’s interior lives and exterior conflicts with social conventions. Their speakers write with consciousness of a female-gendered identity even when the issue isn’t mentioned. Two of the poets we’ll study, the Irish Tara Bergin and the African-American Harryette Mullen, will visit our class, give poetry readings during class time, and answer your questions about their writing. We’ll also read poems by Stevie Smith, Dorothy Parker, Paula Meehan, and Vona Groarke. The course is rigorous and exciting, and I look forward to conversations with you about all the poems. Students must be prepared to attend every class and to discuss the poems.
English 294 (Women Poets) fulfills the English major requirements in genre study (poetry ) and
Women’s and Gender Studies.
Last updated on 2017-10-29 By
McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)
Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 1:00 pm To 2:15 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Any Literature (1e)
- Genre Study (Poetry)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
Teaching Faculty: McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)
Is course canceled: No