English 111 Syllabus

R3 (last half of the term only)

March 12
1) What is the difference between word & object in Wittgenstein? 2) There were several kinds of poets in our reading over the past two weeks . How do the cooked poets of this period differ from their predecessors? What about the rock poets? What about the Objectivists? Are they different because we read them after the poets of the 1950s instead of before? 3) Do these types of poets reflect world views in the sense that Kuhn means it, and if so how? 4) Close read our own poems Read Wittgenstein, all sections beginning 3.xxx Read Kuhn, chapter 12: the Resolution of Revolutions **In the Penn Library Rare Books collection, examine (read, play with, shuffle) Robert Greniers Sentences it is available in the 6th floor reading room. Only once you have looked at the actual Chinese box, examine the online version: http://www.whalecloth.org/grenier/sentences_.htm Read Greniers essay On Speech (pp. 5 & 6 of the five essays under the link) Read whatever you can find online (or in libraries, bookstores, etc.) of the following Clark Coolidge Robert Grenier Lyn Hejinian Rae Armantrout Charles Bernstein Barrett Watten Carla Harryman Jackson Mac Low Bernadette Mayer Bruce Andrews Hannah Weiner Michael Palmer Lorenzo Thomas Steve McCaffery

Leslie Scalapino David Bromige Beverly Dahlen Kit Robinson Tom Mandel Stephen Rodefer Raymond DiPalma Tom Clark Anne Waldman Lewis Warsh Joe Brainard Kathleen Fraser Al Young Andrei Codrescu Nathaniel Mackey Ntozake Shange Jessica Hagedorn Andrei Codrescu Darrell Gray Jack Marshall

Worth noting, at KWH same day as class (but later): Seth Landman & Ben Kopel

March 19
1) Does anyone want to talk about Kuhns gender assumptions? What is that paradigm? Is it grammatical or does it extend further? 2) What are the relationships between language, picture (or reference) and thinking in Wittgenstein? 3) What kind of Martians are the language poets? What about poets like Tom Clark, Darrell Gray & Andrei Codrescu who were very much opposed to language poetry, but equally alienated from the later generation of cooked poets? 4) Close-read our own poems 5) Begin to prep for our group reading on April 23rd Read Wittgenstein, all sections beginning 4.xxx

Read Kuhn, chapter 13: Progress through Revolutions Read whatever you can find online (or in libraries, bookstores, etc.) of the following Rachel Blau DuPlessis Stephen Ratcliffe Kevin Killian Dodie Bellamy bpNichols Tim Dlugos Robert Gluck Paul Hoover Maxine Chernoff Gil Ott Alan Davies Tina Darragh P Inman Jean Day Laura Moriarty Jerry Estrin Dennis Cooper Erica Hunt Leland Hickman Aaron Shurin Eileen Myles Elaine Equi Jerome Sala Barbara Barg Kathy Acker*

Worth noting @ KWH this week: March 20: Tracy K Smith March 21 @ Temple Center City: Rae Armantrout

March 26 6:00 PM @KWH: Nada Gordon

Nada will come to class as well as give a reading at KWH. She will discuss her perspective on the poetries of the oughts & the teens. I expect her to counter many if not all of my assumptions & assertions. 1) Nada on flarf, gurlesque, the new baroque 2) Close-read our poems

Read Wittgenstein, all sections beginning 6.xxx Read whatever you can find online (or in libraries, bookstores, etc.) of the following Sharon Mesmer K Silem Mohammad Katie Degentesh Gary Sullivan Michael Magee Barbara Jane Reyes Eileen R Tabios Brian Teare Ben Doller Sandra Doller Michael Dickman Matthew Dickman Greg Fuchs Donna Stonecipher Truong Tranh Joanna Newsom Banu Kahpil CA Conrad * Daisy Fried * Pattie McCarthy * Kevin Varrone * Kristen Gallagher * Chris McCreary * Jen McCreary * Frank Sherlock * Mytili Jagannathan *

Some key poets of the decade are boldfaced mostly these are poets closely associated with flarf. Poets with asterisks represent the Philly Sound, younger Philly poets with a range of interests & concerns.

Worth noting @ KWH this week: March 28: Reza Negarestani April 1: Maggie OSullivan

April 2
1) What does Kuhn believe about progress? How does this support or differ from the presumptions we saw in Wordsworth & Baudelaire? How would it appear to relate to Wittgensteins concept of the world? 2) Would a linguist recognize Wittgensteins concept of a language as the totality of propositions? 3) For each, what would be experimental? Is change possible? If so, how? 4) Close read our poems 5) Further discussion about the nature of the reading on April 23 Read Wittgenstein, all sections beginning 5.xxx Read whatever you can find online (or in libraries, bookstores, etc.) of the following Cole Swensen Jena Osman Alan Gilbert Jennifer Moxley Juliana Spahr Harryette Mullen Laura Moriarty Peter Gizzi Michael Gizzi Renee Gladman Ann Lauterbach Joan Retallack Elizabeth Willis Lisa Jarnot Eleni Sikelianos Lee Ann Brown Pam Rehm Jean Day Daniel Davidson Kay Ryan kari edwards

Bill Luoma Alice Jones DA Powell Tony Lopez Laird Hunt*

April 9

Turn in journals today Today @ Noon in the Arts Caf Robert Grenier & Stephen Ratcliffe
Read Wittgenstein, all sections beginning 7.xxx Read whatever you can find online (or in libraries, bookstores, etc.) of the following Christian Bk Kenneth Goldsmith Rob Fitterman Vanessa Place Craig Dworkin Darren Wershler-Henry Linh Dinh Tan Lin Tao Lin As much visual poetry as you can find, starting with the links attached to The Last VisPo Anthology http://www.thelastvispo.com/2012/08/30/visual-poetry-blogswebsites/

Poets in boldface have been drivers in the conceptual poetics / uncreative writing movement. Dinh, who is a Philadelphia poet, and Lin are not associated with any group, but do conceptual things in/with their work. Tan Lin and Tao Lin are totally different writers and offer competing visions of the world.

April 16
1) What do WE mean by experimental writing?

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What does poetry tell us about the nature of change What does Wittgenstein mean by silence? What do we mean? Conceptual poetics vs. VisPo? What are the outer limits of Mars? How do Linh Dinh, Tan Lin & Tao Lin relate to conceptual poetics? PRACTICE READING FOR THE APRIL 23RD KWH EVENT

Notable @ KWH on April 16 Book party for Charles Bernsteins Recalculating at 7:00 PM

April 23 English 111 will give a reading @ KWH: 2:30 4:00 PM