ENG 306B RECENT AMERICAN POETS

An exploration of the careers of five or six of our contemporaries and near-contemporaries. This may begin with work like that of Roethke (d. 1963), Bishop (d. 1979), Hayden (d. 1983), or Matthews (d. 1997), but will also include poets still active among us, such as Kinnell, Gluck, Levine, Dove, Ashbery, Doty, etc.