LITR 5731: Seminar in American Minority Literature
University of Houston-Clear Lake, fall 2007

Poetry Presentation Index

Thursday, 30 August: The Classic Slave Narratives, ed. H. L. Gates

Poetry: Jupiter Hammon, "An Evening Thought: Salvation by Christ, with Penetential Cries"

Poetry reader / discussion leader: instructor

Thursday, 6 September: continue Classic Slave Narratives; begin Song of Solomon, chapters 1 & 2 (through p. 55)

Poetry: Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise"

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Patricia (Pat) Dixon

Thursday, 13 September: Song of Solomon, chapters 3-9

Poetry: Amiri Baraka, "Somebody Blew Up America."

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Jennifer Rieck

Thursday, 20 September: complete Song of Solomon

Poetry: Langston Hughes, "Harlem (A Dream Deferred)"; "Dream Variations"

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Cindy Goodson

Thursday, 27 September:  North American Indian Origin Stories (handout); begin Black Elk Speaks:

Poetry: Linda Hogan, "November"

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Rosa Ortiz

Thursday, 4 October: Black Elk Speaks:

Poetry: Peter Blue Cloud, "Crazy Horse Monument"

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Gary Pegoda

Thursday, 18 October: Love Medicine (complete)

Poetry: Louise Erdrich, “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways”

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Kathleen Anderson

Thursday, 25 October: "History of the Miraculous Apparition of the Virgin of Guadalupe in 1531"; Bless Me, Ultima through p. 105 or chapter Diez

Poetry: Jimmy Santiago Baca, "V" from Martin and Meditations on the South Valley

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Corey Porter

Thursday, 8 November: Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek, through p. 83 (i. e., through “Never Marry a Mexican”)

Poetry: Pat Mora, "Depression Days"

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Martin Briones

Thursday, 15 November: Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek (complete)

Poetry: Walt Whitman, "In Paths Untrodden"

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Gordon Lewis

Poetry: W. H. Auden, "Lullabye"

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Leah Guillory

Thursday, 29 November: The Best Little Boy in the World.

Poetry: Frank O'Hara, "My Heart"

Poetry reader / discussion leader: Philip Jones