A study of recent American poetry concentrating on individual volumes by George Oppen, John Berryman, C.K. Williams, Robert Pinsky, Anne Carson, Frank Bidart, Stephen Dobyns, Ellen Voigt, Mark Strand, and others. Format: discussion/seminar. Requirements: one short, one longer paper. Prerequisites: a 100-level English course, except 150. Enrollment limit: 25. (Post-1900)