Course Map

1. 1. Access-the-Course-Map for Students New to Coursera online and SloPo Courses
   2. Course Overview with Sample Poems and Sample Discussion Thread
   3. The Library
   4. Week One and Two Materials: Ethnopoetics & Shaking the Pumpkin
   5. Jerome Rothenberg Assemblage of Materials: From Ethnopoetics to his own poetry and his work on A Big Jewish Book — texts, audio, video. 
   6. The Q&A with Jerome Rothenberg
   7. Week Three Materials: Contemporary American Indian
   8. Week Four Materials: Pacific Islander Poetry 
   9. Week Four Materials: Contemporary Caribbean Anglophone Poetry
   10. Week Five Materials: Contemporary African-American Poetry
   11. Week Six Materials: Contemporary Latinx-American Poetry and Performance
   12. Week Seven Materials: Contemporary Asian-American Poetry
   13. Week Eight Materials:  The Ghazal, Contemporary Middle-Eastern and South-Asian Poetry
   14. RETURN TO COURSERA COURSE SITE PAGE

The Library:  Indigenous, Immigrant, and Multilingual American Poetry

This can be added to as we go! There will be links and all sorts of additional materials. Just let me know if you have a title you think should be added to the list. This will be updated, but permanently available after the course ends.

 

Books Concerning Jerome Rothenberg & Ethnopoetics 

 

Poems for the Game of Silence 1960-1970 by Jerome Rothenberg

**Poland/1931 by Jerome Rothenberg

Khurbn & Other Poems by Jerome Rothenberg

A Big Jewish Book: Poems and Other Visions of the Jews from Tribal Times to the Present, Edited by Jerome Rothenberg

**Shaking the Pumpkin: Traditional Poetry of the Indian North Americas, Edited by Jerome Rothenberg

 

Scholarly and Other Books of Interest

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Truer

Native Literatures and Native American Community by Jace Weaver

English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas by Coco Fusco

Winged Words: America Indian Writers Speak

Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig Womack

 

American Indian Poetry

 

Discovery Passages by Garry Thomas Morse

Janey’s Arcadia by Rachel Zolf

IRL by Tommy Pico

**Nature Poem by Tommy Pico

**Corpse Whale by dg nanouk okpik

How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001 by Joy Harjo

Bone Dance: New and Selected Poems, 1965-1993 by Wendy Rose

Streaming: Poems by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

**Whereas: Poems by Layli Long Soldier

Combing the Snakes from My Hair by James Thomas Stevens

 

Caribbean Poetry

 

**Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture by Mervyn Morris

Selected Poems by Claude McKay

Cannibal: Poems by Safiya Sinclair

**Ancestors by Kamau Brathwaite

Conversations with Nathaniel Mackey -Kamau Brathwaite

**The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy: Rights of Passage, Islands, Masks by Kamau Brathwaite

Black + Blues by Kamau Brathwaite

Psychic Unrest: Poems and Performances by Lillian Allen

Selected Poems by Lorna Goodison

**She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks: Poems by M. NourbeSe Philip

 

 

Eastern European Poetry

 

Revenants: Poems by Mark Nowak

Uxudo by Anne Tardos

 

Asian-American Poetry

 

**Commons: Poems by Myung Mi Kim

Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong

The City in Which I Love You: Poems by li-young lee

Oculus: Poems by Sally Wen Mao

**Soft Science: Poems by Franny Choi

**The Red-Shifting Web: Poems 1970-1998 by Arthur Sze

**Under Flag by Myung Mi Kim

**The Ants: Poems by Sawako Nakayasu

 

African-American Poetry

 

Twerk by Latasha N. Nevada Diggs

The Little Edges: Poems by Fred Moten

Splay Anthem by Nathaniel Mackey

Blue Fasa: Poems by Nathaniel Mackey

Magical Negro by Morgan Parker

 

Lantinx-American Poetry

 

While They Sleep – Under the Bed is Another Country: Poems by Raquel Salas Rivera

Cruel Fiction: Poems by Wendy Trevino

Warrior for Gingostroika by Guillermo Gomez-Peña

**The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the End of the Century by Guillermo Gomez-Peña

Slow Lightning by Eduardo C. Corral

**By Lingual Wholes: Poems by Victor by Victor Hernández Cruz

**Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña

Lima: Limon: Poems by Nathalie Scenters Zapico

In The Shadow of Al-Andalus by Victor Hernández Cruz

Unraveling Words & the Weaving of Water by Cecelia Vicuña

 

Pacific Island Poetry

 

Sista Tongue by Lisa Linn Kinae

**The Salt Wind – Ka Makani Pa’akai na: Poems by Brandy Nalani McDougall

**Hacha from Unincorporated Territory by Craig Santos Perez

**Saina from Unincorporated Territory by Craig Santos Perez

Uluhainalanna by Mahealani Perez Wendt

Coconut Milk by Dan Taulapapa McMullin

 

South-Asian-American and Middle-Eastern-American Poetry

 

**Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English, Edited by Agha Shahid Ali

**Rooms Are Never Finished: Poems by Agha Shahid Ali

Louder Than Hearts: Poems by Zeina Hashem Beck

Mare Nostrum: Poems by Khaled Mattawa

Ismalia Eclipse by Khaled Mattawa

The Fortieth Day: Poems by Kazim Ali

**Migritude: Shailja Patel

Mad Heart Be Brave: Essays on the Poetry of Agha Shahid Ali

 

Articles of Interest

Beyond Settler Time- Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination By Mark Rifkin

GHOST DANCING AT CENTURY’S ENDBeyond Settler Time- Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination By Mark Rifkin 

THE DURATION OF THE LANDBeyond Settler Time- Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination By Mark Rifkin FIRST CHAPTER

Teaching Native Literature Responsibly in a Multiethnic Course Channette Romero

Going_Native_Indians_in_the_American_Cultural_Imag…_—-_(Going_Native)

Who Likes Indians, and- Long Time Ago Simon J. Ortiz

LESLIE MARMON SILKO Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective

American Indian boarding schools – Wikipedia

Cultural assimilation of Native Americans – Wikipedia

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The Lion and the Eagle_ On Being Fluent in “American” – The Millions

Shaking the Pumpkin, Shaking the Word- A Poet’s Plea Author(s)- Scott McLean

Algonquian_Spirit_Contemporary_Translations_of_the…_—-_(Introduction)

The Language of Shamans- Jerome Rothenberg’s Contribution to American Indian Literature Author(s)- H. S. McALLISTER

Native American Barbie- The Marketing of Euro-American Desires Author(s)- Maureen Trudelle Schwarz

Native American Youth and Education on the Reservation – The Atlantic

Tuning as Lyricism- The Performances of Orality in the Poetics of Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin Jennifer Scappettone

The Language of Shamans- Jerome Rothenberg’s Contribution to American Indian Literature Author(s)- H. S. McALLISTER Source- Western American Literature, Vol. 10, No. 4 (WINTER 1976)

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The Language of Shamans- Jerome Rothenberg’s Contribution to American Indian Literature Author(s)- H. S. McALLISTER

Writing Deeper Maps- Mapmaking, Local Indigenous Knowledges, and Literary Nationalism in Native Women’s Writing Johnson, Kelli Lyon

History, Place, and Racial Self-Representation in 21st Century America

 

(there will be additional poetry available, but not required for discussion) Would like some dub poetry, etc. But I have to be realistic about what’s actually possible in this format.

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   Course Map

   1. 1. Access-the-Course-Map for Students New to Coursera online and SloPo Courses
      2. Course Overview with Sample Poems and Sample Discussion Thread
      3. The Library
      4. Week One and Two Materials: Ethnopoetics & Shaking the Pumpkin
      5. Jerome Rothenberg Assemblage of Materials: From Ethnopoetics to his own poetry and his work on A Big Jewish Book — texts, audio, video. 
      6. The Q&A with Jerome Rothenberg
      7. Week Three Materials: Contemporary American Indian
      8. Week Four Materials: Pacific Islander Poetry 
      9. Week Four Materials: Contemporary Caribbean Anglophone Poetry
      10. Week Five Materials: Contemporary African-American Poetry
      11. Week Six Materials: Contemporary Latinx-American Poetry and Performance
      12. Week Seven Materials: Contemporary Asian-American Poetry
      13. Week Eight Materials:  The Ghazal, Contemporary Middle-Eastern and South-Asian Poetry
      14. RETURN TO COURSERA COURSE SITE PAGE

   

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