Course details
Name: ENGL - 294
Title: WOMEN POETS
Section: 01
Semester: Spring - 2022
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 on their exterior conflicts with social conventions. Their speakers write with consciousness of a female-gendered identity even when the issue of gender isn't mentioned. Two of the poets we'll study will visit our class, give poetry readings during class time, and answer your questions about their writing. We'll also read poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stevie (aka Florence Margaret) Smith, Dorothy Parker, Lucille Clifton, and others. The course is rigorous and exciting, and I look forward to conversations with you about all the poems. All classes will be taught in a campus classroom, with attendance and participation in discussion required. Computers, laptops, kindles, iPads, and iPhones may not be used during class; most of the required reading will be available free of charge on Canvas to be printed out. Other required work will include weekly discussion posts, a mid-term exam, a final exam, and a long paper.
Schedule: Wednesday From 10:45 am To 1:15 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Any Literature (1e)
- Genre Study (Poetry)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
- World Cultures (TE 7a)
Teaching Faculty: McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)
Is course canceled: No