reading & meeting schedule


Fellows 2013 – Course Schedule & Syllabus

Thurs Jan 10, 6 PM (evening: special intro session at KWH)

John Ashbery

Mon Jan 14
1. read selection of early poems, Library of America Collected Poems [click here for a detailed reading & listening list]
2. read Ashbery on the self: [link]
3. listen to 4 introductions to Ashbery: [link
4. read from Selected Prose: "The Impossible: Gertrude Stein," "Robert Frost Medal Address"
5. read JA's early collage poem, "Hoboken" and this explanation of his collage experiments. 

Mon Jan 21 (MLK Day – special evening class at Osage, 6 PM, with dinner)
1. read selection of poems (continued) from Library of America Collected Poems [click here for a detailed reading & listening list]
2. read from Selected Prose: "A Conversation with Kenneth Koch," "Frank O'Hara, 1926-1966," "Writers and Issues: Frank O'Hara's Question," "The New York School of Poets," "Review of Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets," "Introduction to The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara," "A Reminiscence of Frank O'Hara"

Mon Jan 28 
1. selection of poems from Library of America Collected Poems concluded [click here for detailed reading & listening list]
2. selection of poems from Notes from the Air, collected later poems [click here for detailed reading & listening list]

Mon Feb 4
1. selection of poems from Notes from the Air [click here for detailed reading & listening list]
2. selection of poems from Planisphere [click here for detailed list]
3. selection of poems from Quick Question [click here for detailed list]

Mon/Tues Feb 11-12 John Ashbery visits

Janet Malcolm

Mon Feb 18
The Journalist & the Murderer
Iphegenia in Forest Hills

Mon Feb 25
In the Freud Archives
The Window Washer” (available as PDF)

Mon Mar 4 no class – spring break

Mon Mar 11
Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

Mon/Tues Mar 18-19 Janet Malcolm visits

Rodrigo Garcia

Mon Mar 25 (Passover eve)
1. screen Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
2. read Things You Can Tell screenplay: [link]

Mon April 1
watch season 1 of In Treatment

Mon April 8
1. screen Nine Lives 
2. read Nine Lives screenplay: [link]
3. screen Ten Tiny Love Stories

Mon April 15
1. screen Mother and Child
2. read Mother and Child screenplay: [link]
3. watch Serena on WIGS (1 episode): [link]
4. watch season 1 of Blue on WIGS (12 episodes): [link]
5. watch Christine on WIGS (12 episodes): [link]
6. read Christine screenplay: [link]

Mon/Tues April 22-23 Rodrigo Garcia visits

Final words session (+ discussion about exam): Wednesday, April 24, 7:30 PM (with dinner)