SPRING 2008
HARMAN PROGRAM COURSE
Taught by Charles Simic
U. S. Poet Laureate

Topics in Literature:
Modern Poetry and The City
English 3950 SY3/English 3950H SY3H
Wednesdays: 2:05 PM to 5:00 PM
Room: 8-190
Professor: Charles Simic

Section SY3/SY3H will be taught by the U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, author of 20 books of poetry, seven books of essays, a memoir, and numerous books of translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Mr. Simic will be on campus as the Spring 2008 Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence.

This workshop will combine discussion of students’ poems with extensive readings in poetry that deals with city life. We will study the work of Whitman, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lorca, Crane, Williams, Bishop and many others, as we try to understand the immense and radical changes that have taken place in poetry over the last hundred and fifty years. Individual conferences with the instructor.

In order to register for this course, students must submit a resume and samples of their writing for review by Professor Roslyn Bernstein (646-312-3930) or by e-mail: Roz_Bernstein@baruch.cuny.edu. Deadline for submission: November 8th.

For additional information on the Harman Program, please see our website: Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence home page.