This course offers an exploration of experimental traditions in poetry in the past 60 years and the myriad ways in which poets have challenged the literary establishment. We will study poets who challenge Modernism, recenter identity, represent new voices, decolonize poetry from its Anglo-European traditions, invent new poetic forms, transform poetry into visual and musical art pieces, create uncreatively, and explore the poetic potential of digital media technologies.
ENG 4795: Contemporary American Literature 1960-present (4796: Capstone)
Prof. Leonardo Flores – M,W 3:30-4:45 pm – face to face, with tactical hybridity
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By Leonardo Flores
Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.
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