Poetry and Public Life

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 17.03.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Teaching Situation and Rationale
  3. The Unit
  4. Teaching Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix
  7. Resources
  8. Notes

Poetic Visions and Versions of America

Tara Cristin McKee

Published September 2017

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Notes

  1. Kennedy, Caroline. A Patriot’s Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love, 367.
  2. Rich, Adrienne. What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics,
  3. McVee, Mary B., et al. “Using Digital Media to Interpret Poetry: Spiderman Meets Walt Whitman.Research in the Teaching of English, 43.2 (2008): 112–143. Accessed June 15, 2017. jstor.org/stable/40171762.
  4. Popoff, Georgia A. and Quraysh Ali Lansana. Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry, Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community,
  5. Ibid., 37.
  6. Ibid., 37.
  7. Cushman, Stephen. "Whitman and Patriotism." Virginia Quarterly Review,2 (Spring 2005): 163-185. Accessed on June 21, 2017. search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=16489317&site=ehost-live&scope=site, 167.
  8. Whitman, Walt. Completed Poetry and Selected Prose,
  9. Klier, Ron. “Walt Whitman, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and the Anxiety of Influence.” Midwest Quarterly, 40. 3 (Spring 1999): 334-350. Accessed June 2, 2017. search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=1876707&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
  10. Vogel, Andrew. “The Dream and the Dystopia: Bathetic Humor, the Beats, and Walt Whitman's Idealism” American Studies, 58.3 (2013): 389-407. Accessed June 25, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43485897, 393.
  11. Jackson, Mark Allan. Is This Song Your Song Anymore?: Revisioning Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." American Music, 20.3 (Autumn 2002): 249-276. Accessed July 14, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1350126, 253.
  12. Ibid., 257.
  13. Vogel, Andrew. The Dream and the Dystopia: Bathetic Humor, the Beats, and Walt Whitman's IdealismAmerican Studies, 58.3 (2013): 389-407. Accessed June 25, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43485897, 391.
  14. Klier, Ron. “Walt Whitman, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and the Anxiety of Influence.” Midwest Quarterly, 40. 3 (Spring 1999): 334-350. Accessed June 2, 2017. search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=1876707&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
  15. Ibid.
  16. Vogel, Andrew. “The Dream and the Dystopia: Bathetic Humor, the Beats, and Walt Whitman's Idealism” American Studies, 58.3 (2013): 389-407. Accessed June 25, 2017. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43485897, 404.
  17. Kennedy, Caroline. A Patriot’s Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love, xxii.
  18. Ibid., xxii.
  19. Ibid., 353.
  20. Epstein, Andrew. Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry. (Oxford University Press, 2006). Accessed on June 21, 2017. DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195181005.001.0001.
  21. Ricks, Christopher. Dylan’s Vision of Sin, 231.
  22. Ibid., 225.
  23. Ibid., 232.
  24. Ibid., 233.
  25. Cushway, Phil, and Michael Warr, ed., Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Treyvon Martin, 13.
  26. Ibid., 13.
  27. Kennedy, Caroline. A Patriot’s Handbook: Songs, Poems, Stories, and Speeches Celebrating the Land We Love, 500.
  28. Sorisio, Carolyn. Fleshing Out America: Race, Gender, and the Politics of the Body in American Literature, 1833-1879. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002). Project MUSE, Accessed on July 1, 2017. http://muse.jhu.edu/book/11520, 201.
  29. Cushway, Phil, and Michael Warr, ed., Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Treyvon Martin, 85.
  30. Ginsberg, Allen and Gordon Ball. Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry, Politics, Consciousness, 110.
  31. Rich, Adrienne. What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics,
  32. Klier, Ron. “Walt Whitman, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and the Anxiety of Influence.” Midwest Quarterly, 40. 3 (Spring 1999): 334-350. Accessed June 2, 2017. search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=1876707&site=ehost-live&scope=site.
  33. Hernsen, Terry. Poetry of Place: Helping Students Write Their Worlds,
  34. Christensen, Linda et al. Rhythm and Resistance: Teaching Poetry for Social Justice, 178.
  35. , 180.
  36. McVee, Mary B., et al. “Using Digital Media to Interpret Poetry: Spiderman Meets Walt Whitman.Research in the Teaching of English, 43.2 (2008): 112–143. Accessed June 15, 2017. jstor.org/stable/40171762.Ibid.
  37. Ibid.
  38. Ibid.
  39. Ibid.

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