Carol Potter

Getting Personal, a Close Reading of Joan Aleshire’s Essay, “Staying News, A Defense of the Lyric”

Wednesday, December 14, 2022, 2:30 to 3:45 p.m. PT

Required Reading:

Aleshire, Joan. “Staying News, A Defense of the Lyric.” The Kenyon Review, New Series, Vol. 10, No. 3 Summer, 1988, pp. 47-64.

Chen, Chen. “Talking to God About Heaven from the Bed of a Heathen.” When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. BOA Editions, 2017.

Komunyakaa, Yusef. “Tu Do Street.” Dien Cai Dau. Wesleyan University Press, 1988, p.29.

Lowell, Robert. “Skunk Hour.”  Life Studies, 1956, 1959. Farrar, Strauss,& Giroux, 1987.

Olds, Sharon. “I Go Back to May 1937.” Strike Sparks: Selected Poems 1980-2002. Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Plath, Sylvia. “Daddy.” Collected Poems. 1960. Harper Collins, 1992.

Seuss, Diane. [Here on this edge I have had many diminutive visions.]  frank: sonnets. Graywolf Press, 2021.