Description
This course is a critical study of poetry written throughout the twentieth and twenty-first century. The course’s reading and writing assignments will focus upon the analysis and interpretation of representative works from important movements from the previous century such as projectivism, the Beats, the New York School, Confessional Poetry, Surrealism, Feminism, the New Formalism, and Multiculturalism. Students completing this course will develop a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of the forms and themes defining contemporary poetry.