Tuesday's Class

We're reading:

Christine Hume's Musca Domestica
Ashley VanDoorn's "With What Eyes" (from issue four of The Canary), alongside Hume's "True and Obscure Definitions of Fly, Domestic and Otherwise" in particular
an excerpt from Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson

I'm presenting a paper on several poems from Musca Domestica at the Third Biennial Conference of the Contemporary Women's Writing Network, so I'm particularly excited to hear what my students have to say about this week's material.

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Last week's "voyage poems" discussion went well. Robert Hayden's "Middle Passage," Hart Crane's "Voyages," and Wallace Steven's "The Comedian as the Letter C."