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are not entering the program can enroll in it on a space available basis august 27 introduction september 3 one on one meetings we will establish an individualized reading list of at least 5 books at this meeting september 10 homer book 18 the shield of achilles the iliad translated by robert fagles and the fagles introduction if not winter fragments of sappho translated by anne carson page dubois fragmentary introduction sappho is burning optional simone weil the iliad or the poem of force translated by mary mccarthy september 17 percy bysshe shelley masque of anarchy and a defence of poetry michael demson masks of anarchy the story of a radical poem from percy shelley to the triangle factory fire september 24 kristin ross the emergence of social space rimbaud and the paris commune especially introduction and the transformation of social space rimbaud a season in hell october 1 selections of work by john crowe ransom allen tate robert penn warren randall jarrell in the norton anthology of poetry angie maxwell the writer as southerner indicted south public criticism southern inferiority and the politics of whiteness october 8 bertolt brecht writing the truth five difficulties gertrude stein tender buttons virginia wolf mr bennett and mrs brown october 15 aimé césaire notebook of a return to my native land aimé césaire poetry and knowledge introduction to refusal of the shadow surrealism and the caribbean by michael richardson and krzysztof fijałkowski october 22 william j harris introduction to the leroi jones amiri baraka reader baraka black dada nihilismus black art short speech to my friends am track fred moten tragedy elegy and the dark lady and the sexual cut in the break the aesthetics of the black radical tradition documents from the black arts movement www english illinois edu maps blackarts documents htm october 29 susan howe my emily dickinson hejinian my life november 5 chad harbach mfa vs nyc mark mcgurl introduction hall of mirrors november 12 19 and december 3 one on one meetings portfolio due a week before your meeting posted by jms at 11 33 am january 04 2014 english 204 craft of poetry last year when we revised the craft curriculum we designed a two semester craft sequence for first year students this is the second semester of that loosely the first semester was to be an introduction to the wide range of aesthetics and concerns that define the genre of poetry in the twentieth century so as to gift you with a fluency in the complicated ecosystem that is contemporary literature and then the second semester was to be a chance for more indepth study of a few of these aesthetics and concerns with that in mind and building off the work you did last semester we will begin this semester by reading some of more sociological concerned methods of literary analysis of recent years after that and keeping these methodologies in mind we will look at three aesthetic clusters movement aka identity poetries conceptualism and a lyric of political antagonism i have chosen these clusters because they are ones that mills graduate students frequently use so you are encouraged to locate your work within these areas i have designed each cluster to tell a developmental historical story of the form out of this we will discuss how literary forms are formed in response to and or in dialogue with various socio economic forces how they atrophy and how we recognize this and then how they mutate requirements one demonstration as in use some of the critical methods that we ve been discussing apply moretti bring in a map graph or a tree that tells us a story of some sort about poetry or apply evans count some prize winners etc note i really want you to do demonstrate your ability to use the more sociological methodologies used by moretti evans dubois or mcgurl rather than the close reading methods that someone like berlant uses nothing against close reading but i am assuming you ve been trained in close reading all your life want you to try something else suggested length here is 2 5 double spaced pages bring copies for the class three presentations each presentation should be two parts presentations are the second week of each of the clusters bring copies for the class one part should be a description of what has happened or a historical overview you are welcome to make these larger than the works we read in class in fact are encouraged to do so this part of the presentation should draw from or enact some of the critical methodologies that should be in play by this point in the semester suggested length here is 2 5 double spaced pages the second should be either a description of a possible project or an enactment of a project that illustrates something that could also happen in the form content area etc but has not yet been done get it first historicize second innovate january 22 introduction january 29 franco moretti maps graphs and trees sebastien dubois and pierre francois career paths and hierarchies in the pure pole of the literary field the case of contemporary poetry sebastien dubois the french poetry economy strategies stakes and methods january 30 at 7 pm at bay area public school stephanie young and myself will be hosting a discussion of the weeks and berlant texts february 5 kathi weeks the problem with work feminism marxism antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries introduction chapter 3 working demands from wages for housework to basic income the last section of chapter 5 from the manifesto to the utopian demand pp 218 225 and the epilogue a life beyond work lauren berlant cruel optimism introduction the first section of chapter 6 always now situation gesture impasse pp 191 200 chapter 7 on the desire for the political and note on the cover image if body riva and zora in middle age wages for housework communiqués february 8 cruel work mills hall 133 12 00 1 30 jasper bernes and maya gonzalez wendy trevino kathi weeks 2 30 4 00 lauren berlant dawn lundy martin jackie wang poetry reading the public school 2141 broadway 7 30 jasper bernes and mara gonzalez dawn lundy martin wendy trevino jackie wang february 12 steve evans field notes october 2003 june 2004 mark mcgurl the program era art and alma mater the family the nation and the primal scene of instruction and miniature america or the program in transplanetary perspective february 19 no class february 8 conference is substitute for this class february 26 no class march 5 demonstration due bring copies for the class be prepared to speak about march 12 april 2 somewhat identity movement esque walt whitman leaves of grass langston hughes negro and let america be america again but these are also interesting on this topic america ballads of lenin the negro mother rudolfo corky gonzales i am joaquin marilyn chin how i got that name robert frost the gift outright maya angelou on the pulse of morning elizabeth alexander praise song for the day praise song for struggle richard blanco one today trisha low the compleat purge nourbese philip zong edwin torres neomanifestany in the all union day of the shock worker march 26 spring break april 9 23 somewhat conceptualish charles reznikoff excerpt from holocaust heimrad backer excerpt from transcript peter weiss the investigation rob fitterman holocaust museum vanessa place excerpt from statement of facts mark nowak coal mountain elementary josef kaplan kill list stephen collis of blackberries and the poetic commons kenneth goldsmith towards a poetics of hyperrealism abe louise young the voices of hurricane katrina part one raymond mcdaniel part two april 30 may 14 somewhat about lyric somewhat about antagonism somewhat about occupations kristin ross the emergence of social space rimbaud and the paris commune especially introduction and the transformation of social space rimbaud a season in hell gisele sapiro forms of politicization in the french literary field ronald paulson the art of riot david buuck editor hi zero feature on oakland david buuck we are all sound jasper bernes we are nothing and so can you pdf jasper bernes and joshua clover götterdämmerung family bbq pdf joshua clover editor the insurrectionary turn american reader joshua clover and juliana spahr two poets on politics sean bonney letter on silence and letter on poetics joshua clover georgic for the world system anne boyer from occupied kansas city jackqueline frost the antidote rachel levitsky the story of my accident is ours renee gladman the activist stephanie young ursula or the university thanks to kaplan harris for some articles posted by jms at 3 06 pm june 03 2013 letter to uk comrades with joshua clover and chris chen posted by jms at 1 50 pm january 07 2013 talk for mla 2012 panel on poet scholar i have an autobiographical relation to the poet scholar category i wanted to be a poet i went and got a phd in english with the idea that even the ta line would be a sort of day job at the time this being a poet and being a scholar felt not quite related my first job was as a scholar my second and current job is as a creative writer everyone told me for years i had to be one or the other i continued to muddle on as both there is nothing unique about this story so i will present it as anecdotal example i will in these notes just quickly attempt to enumerate the terrain which i think might explain how we have found ourselves at a panel on the poet scholar at the mla in 2012 i will draw no conclusions from it when i was applying for that first job i thought i was entering the job market in its decline casual or adjunct appointments were at around 30 this felt catastrophic the general thinking was that that there was no way it could get worse who would do the service it was often said by colleagues in the hallways it would be unsustainable to go lower but then adjunct labor was teaching 50 of the classes when i got this second job in 2003 as a poet in what mark nowak calls the american neoliberal mfa industry what i realize now that i couldn t see then was that despite the massive casualization of academic labor i was at the same time getting a job in what is looking like it might very well be an mfa bubble economy when i got my first job in 1995 there were somewhere maybe around sixty five mfa programs in 2009 there were around 194 i got these numbers from seth abramson and in his estimate the cohort groups for these programs average out to about 20 so in less than fifteen years the us has gone from producing around 1300 to close to 4000 mfas per year many of these mfa programs are clustered at tuition dependent universities although some state universities have begun to see these programs as good ideas because they can educate that casual labor pool they so need to have around but there are next to no employment prospects for these graduates which wouldn t necessarily have to be a problem if not for how so many have funded their degrees through large amounts of student loans this is why the mfa numbers look unsustainable parallel to what is looking like an unsustainable mfa bubble is what i might call the possible creative writing ization of the english major again numbers here are hard to find so i ll resort to anecdote when i was an undergraduate way back in the 80s colleges and universities tended to treat creative writing classes like candy too many would make you sick and weak the small liberal arts college that i attended taught two poetry workshops a year a beginning and an advanced one you had to apply to take them 12 students were admitted the rest it was felt did not deserve such a pleasure other schools if they even had a creative writing major tended to limit the creative writing majors they had a gateway admissions process and only a certain number were allowed to be majors some schools especially big state universities still use this model but in general as the university system has begun to see students less as children whose candy intake should be regulated and more as consumers whose candy tuition money they want they tend not to regulate but to provide anecdote again the small liberal arts college where i now teach when i began teaching there used the limited class offerings model to regulate creative writing majors each semester there was a beginning and an advanced waiting lists and demand be damned at a certain point the department begins to receive more and more pressure from the administration to enroll whatever would enroll however it would enroll so the department began to offer more and more undergraduate workshops now the department s unregulated undergraduate creative writing majors tend to double undergraduate english majors there are numerous reasons for this the grades in creative writing classes are obviously higher the reading is less the writing has a lower word count etc but not all of them are necessarily negative or lazy assumptive i d like to think that students might also be looking at the five page seminar paper the continued tendency to teach mainly the literatures of only two nations and the strict century coverage model that begins in the early modern period and think to themselves well at least the novel say has the possibility of being read by someone outside of the classroom beyond anecdote there is a fairly obvious piece of evidence to support this possible creative writing ization of english departments although the awp started in 1967 it did not feel compelled to hold a conference until 2005 it started small with 3000 attendees last year it had 11 000 attendees and it expects more this year the mla at its peak in the mid 1990s maxed out with around 12 000 people attending its conference last year it had around 7 000 i doubt this possible creative writing ization is in anyway a permanent change to english departments and that is how it should be however it definitely has had a major impact on the hiring patterns of english departments and english departments will be changed by this for years to come and while whatever happens next remains to be seen i doubt it will look like a retreat to what english departments looked like in what we might now want to begin to call the glory days of the 1990s the profession is obviously in the middle of a profound metamorphosis of some sort from the fairly dramatic funding cuts that are privatizing the state university systems to the increasing evidence that the private system might have reached peak tuition a few years ago and might now be massively overpriced in relation to student ability and or willingness to pay or borrow in a fairly stagnant employment market and then english departments have their own narratives within these large scale changes i m not sure in short that the profession could pay its composition and intro class instructors so little if it were not for the current large numbers of mfa graduates it is also worth remembering that when bennington fired all its tenured line faculty under the advice of john barr recently retired president 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