LITR 4332: American Minority Literature

Student Poetry Presentations 2007

All page numbers for poems in presentations are to Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan, eds.  Unsettling America: An Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry (Penguin)

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Monday, 29 January: begin selections from The Classic Slave Narratives

Poetry presentation(s):

Safiya Henderson-Holmes, “Failure of an Invention” UA 60

Reader: A’Tousha Ricks

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Monday, 5 February: selections from The Classic Slave Narratives:

Poetry presentation(s):

Amiri Baraka, “Ka ‘Ba” UA 155-56.

Reader: Kyle Rahe

Audre Lorde, “Hanging Fire,” UA 297.

Reader: Katie Raney

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Monday, 12 February: begin I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (pages 1-111; through chapter 18)

Poetry presentation(s):

Patricia Smith, "Blonde White Woman" UA 77-79

Reader: Jacqueline Lowman

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Monday, 19 February: conclude I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (pp. 128-164 (chapters 22-24), 217-246 (chapters 33-36).

Poetry presentation(s):

Lamont B. Steptoe, "Election Time" UA 250

Reader: Kristin Long

Safiya Henderson-Holmes, “Friendly Town #1,” UA 292-93.

Reader: Pam Richey

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Monday, 26 February: begin Donald Goines, Black Girl Lost (through chapter 8, or page 128)

Poetry presentation(s):

Sonia Sanchez, “Song No. 3,” 111.

Reader: Dana Stephens

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Monday, 5 March: conclude Donald Goines, Black Girl Lost (complete)

Poetry presentation(s):

Lucille Clifton, “Song at Midnight” UA 111-12

Reader: Lauralie Pope

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Monday, 26 March: read handouts for American Indian literature on "Origin Stories," etc.

Poetry presentation(s):

Mary TallMountain, “The Last Wolf,” UA 33-34.

Reader: Cana Hauerland

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Monday, 2 April: selections from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Poetry presentation(s):

Chrystos, “I Have Not Signed a Treaty with the United States Government,” UA 304

Reader: Susanne Brooks

Simon J. Ortiz, “Travels in the South,” UA 278-281.

Reader: Gregory Banks

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Monday, 9 April: conclude selections from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven;

Poetry presentation(s):

Peter Blue Cloud, “Crazy Horse Monument” UA 179-180.

Reader: Jessica Zuniga

Poetry presentation(s):

Louise Erdrich, “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways” UA 26-27

Reader: Talli Ortiz

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Monday, 16 April: handout: “The Virgin of Guadalupe”; begin Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima (through p. 50 or chapter Cinco)

Poetry presentation(s):

Luis J. Rodriguez, “We Never Stopped Crossing Borders” UA 6

Reader: Veronica Kreuder

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Monday, 23 April: continue Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima (pp. 50-176; chapters Seis through Catorce)

Poetry presentation(s):

Pat Mora, “Elena” UA 11.

Reader: Tami Gilley

Jimmy Santiago Baca, “So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans” UA 115-116.

Reader: Casey Reed

Jimmy Santiago Baca, “Immigrants in Our Own Land” UA 8-9.

Reader: Lara Magee

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Monday, 30 April: conclude Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima (pp. 177-262; chapters Quince through Veintidos)

Poetry presentation(s):

Pat Mora, “Depression Days” UA 119-20.

Reader: Jennifer Mason

Pat Mora, “La Migra” UA 367-368.

Reader: Mallory Rogers