Newberry Library Seminar

I Sing the Nation Electric: How Poetry Makes America
Wednesdays, 2 - 4 pm
September 16 - November 4
8 sessions, $180
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This course approaches poetry as a force that shapes ideas of citizenship and cultural identity. We will examine the form and content of familiar and less familiar poems from the period of the American Revolution to the present, including works by Longfellow, Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, and Joy Harjo.

Jennifer Shook is an Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholar and Lincoln Bicentennial Speaker. She is Artistic Director of Caffeine Theatre and an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University.