The English Literature Club will be meeting most Fridays from 1:30-2:30 p.m. this semester in Batmale 349, the usual place.
This Friday, September 9th, will feature a club introduction, and I will give a brief talk entitled "Roses, Rats, and the Shortest Poems on Earth." I will use short pieces by Langston Hughes, Carl Rakosi, Robert Burns, William Blake, Dorothy Parker, John Keats, and the team of Jim Harrison and Ted Kooser as an introduction to reading poetry. I will focus on voice and character in relation to the unfolding drama of even the shortest poems.
If you have students in your English 1Bs (and other classes) who are a bit anxious about reading poetry, send them to the Lit Club meeting this Friday, and I'll try to help them out a bit.
Thank you,
Matt Duckworth
English Literature Club Advisor
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