Beyond the US and the British Isles. This course asks what it might mean to study contemporary Anglophone poetry without privileging the the stories of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. We will be exploring possible global, postcolonial, transnational, and comparative approaches. In addition to a handful of longer works-probably Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe (2002), John Kinsella's Divine Comedy (2008), and M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! (2008)-we will be reading poems by such figures as Agha Shahid Ali, Dione Brand, Kamau Brathwaite, Pam Brown, Kamau Dawes, Ingrid de Kok, Les Murray, Christopher Okigbo, A.K. Ramanujan, John Tranter, and Derek Walcott.