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Listen as I discuss the revised poem and the final portfolio.
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Listen as I discuss the final creative project and schedule for the last two weeks of the course.
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Listen as I explain the reimagined poem versus the revised poem and read a couple of my poems as examples.
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Listen as I introduce this week's readings and discuss the top 5 response on What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life.
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Listen as I introduce Week 12 and the Letter from Walt assignment.
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Listen as I introduce the readings for Week 11.
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Listen as I introduce the week on psychoanalytic criticism and the longer essay assignment.
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Listen as I read and discuss Poem Assignment #11 and my own ekphrastic poem.
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Listen as I read and discuss Poem Assignment #10 and my own myth poem.
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Listen as I read and discuss Poem Assignment #9 and my "animal" poem, "Like Running into Hillary Clinton in the Woods."
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Listen as I read and discuss Poem Assignment #8 and my own word poem.
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Listen as I read and discuss the Top 5 writing assignment and Emily Dickinson's letters.
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Listen as I give a couple of important reminders.
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Listen as I read and discuss Poem Assignment #7 and my own narrative poem, "Your Life Is Meaningless."
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Listen as I discuss the readings and assignments for Week 6.
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Listen as I introduce the readings and assignments for this week.
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Listen as I read and discuss Poem Assignment #6 and one of my own imitation poems.
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Listen as I introduce feminist criticism and discuss the readings for this week.
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Listen as I discuss the reading and assignments for Week 5.
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Listen as I read and discuss Poem Assignment #5: The Response Poem.
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Listen as I give an overview of reader-response criticism and discuss the readings for this week.
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Listen as I review the assignments for this week.
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Listen as I read and discuss Poem Assignment #4 and one of my own letter poems.
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Listen as I do a close reading of Emily Dickinson's poem #466 ("I dwell in Possibility -").
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Listen as I read and discuss Poem Assignment #3 and one of my own persona poems.