Week 5: Play

Monday, October 30

Wednesday, November 1

  • In class
    • Review of sound devices in poetry.
    • Brief lecture on line breaks and visual form.
    • Analyze poems in handout.
  • Assignment
    • Practice on remaining poems in handout.
    • Bring USB drive to class.

Friday, November 3

  • In class
    • Discussion of assigned poems.
    • Sound poetry lecture, examples, and analysis
  • Assignment
    • Sound Poetry Assignment:
      • Download the sound poetry files (here) and listen to them.
      • Write a brief analysis (1 paragraph each) of 2 of the sound poems.
      • Post in our Facebook Group before (or during) class.

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.