Week 5: Poetry Beyond the Page

Tuesday, September 19

  • In class:
  • Assignment
    • Read “Sound Poetry” in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
    • Explore UbuWeb: Sound
    • Create a Google document in this shared folder and briefly analyze 3 works of sound poetry focusing on how the aural form contributes to the idea presented. Post a link to your document, along with the titles of the works you’ve analyzed, in our GroupMe before class on Thursday.

Thursday, September 21

  • In class:
  • Assignment
    • Read “Performance” in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.
    • Analyze a video of a poetic performance, focusing on what information is captured by the video recording and what it contributes to your understanding of the poem. Post a link to the video and your brief (1 paragraph) analysis before class on Tuesday.

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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.