October 21

Charles Olson / Robert Creeley / Robert Duncan / Denise Levertov

reading: Olson 1-15, 1053-1061; Duncan 150-158; Levertov 247-256, 1081-1086; Creeley 325-334.

right: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley

October 28

Elizabeth Bishop / Robert Lowell / Richard Wilbur / Robert Hayden / Gwendolyn Brooks

reading: Bishop 15-45; Hayden 52-68; Lowell 119-140; Brooks 140-149; Wilbur 196-202.

November 4

John Berryman / Theodore Roethke / Robert Bly / W.S. Merwin / James Wright

reading: Roethke (V1) 841-855; Berryman (V2) 92-100; Bly 370-375; Merwin 408-414; Wright 414-422.

November 11

Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, "late" Robert Lowell

reading: Plath, 593-595, Collected Poems
Sexton 431-438.

November 18

Kenneth Rexroth / Lawrence Ferlinghetti / Allen Ginsberg / Gary Snyder / Amiri Baraka / Jack Spicer

reading: Rexroth (V1) 765-774; Ferlinghetti (V2) 162-166; Ginsberg 334-358; Snyder 534-542; Baraka 632-639; Spicer poems from handout.

right: Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder, 1967

November 25

John Ashbery / Kenneth Koch / Frank O'Hara / James Schuyler

reading: Koch 261-269; O’Hara 361-370, 1072-1073; Ashbery 384-408; Schuyler poems from handout.

December 2

A.R. Ammons / Adrienne Rich / Michael Harper / Frank Bidart / Louise Gluck / James Tate

reading: Ammons 288-305; Rich 456-483, 1086-1096; Harper 698-705; Bidart 750-760; Gluck 818-826; Tate 837-843.

December 9

Charles Bernstein / Michael Palmer / Lyn Hejinian / Susan Howe

reading: Bernstein 909-915, 1111-1114; Palmer 826-831; Hejinian 788-797; Howe 688-697.

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