Week 6: Lines, Stanzas, Poetic Form

Monday, September 21

  • Read “Line” in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
  • Read “Enjambment” in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Tuesday, September 22

  • Read “Stanza” in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
  • Read “Couplet” in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
  • Read “Tercet” in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
  • Alexander Pope “An Essay on Criticism“
  • Tercet examples.
  • Fady Joudah “The Tea and Sage Poem“

Friday, September 25

  • Read “Sonnet” in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
  • Read “Villanelle” in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
  • Read “Sestina” in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
  • Read “sestina” by Elizabeth Bishop and write a brief Facebook group posting of the impact of the form on the poem.
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By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. His research areas are electronic literature, with a focus on e-poetry, digital writing, and the history and strategic growth of the field. He’s known for I ♥ E-Poetry, the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, “Third Generation Electronic Literature” and the Antología Lit(e)Lat, Volume 1. He is a member of the MLA-CCCC Joint Task Force on AI and Writing. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.