This class will be focused on techniques and strategies for making poetry respond to the current moment. The primary goal will to be write poems which are alive and energetic and responsive to what Wallace Stevens called "the pressure of reality." We will look at satiric modes along with more "sincere" responses, with a strong emphasis on the craft elements of tone, tonal shifts, and the implications of stanza and line.

The required text will be Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology

Prerequisites:

ENGL 283 & ENGL 284