The students of English 581 will sit as a kind of court of judgment while individual classmates, one at a time, bring a poem by an American poet, written since WWII, and describe its virtues and possible shortcomings. Students will be put in the position of editors of a literary magazine, choosing what should be published and what should not. Each will compile an individual anthology of 25-30 such poems with their assessments as a form of term paper.