"The New York School of Poetry." This class will center around an immersive reading of several
major figures in post-World War II American poetry: John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Alice Notley, and Frank O'Hara.
Originally celebrated for its close ties to the visual and performing arts, the New York School has more recently
become central to attempts to think through the key roles played by gender and sexual orientation in the transition
from "modernism" to "postmodernism" in the United States. The New York School has also cast a long shadow: we will
be discussing its inluence on subsequent avant-gade writing, from Language Poetry to Flarf.