1.

Introduction to the course

Close reading practice

A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver

The Crafty Reader by Robert Scholes

2.

Poetry in Translation

Why Translation Matters? By Edith Grossman

3

Poetry in Hispanic America

The Bow and the Lyre by Octavio Paz

4

Modernism x Modernism in Latin America

Tradición de la ruptura (Tradition Against Itself) by Octavio Paz

Rubén Darío

José Martí

César Vallejo

5

Avant-garde / Vanguardia

Poetic Manifests

Paris as the capital of Hispanic poets

Vanguardias hispanoamericanas – ultraísmo, creacionismo, estridentismo

6

Chile

Vicente Huidobro

Pablo Neruda

Gabriela Mistral

Enrique Lihn

Violeta Parra

Nicanor Parra

7

Antipoetry and Nicanor Parra / Postmodernism

What is antipoetry?

Visual artefacts, eco poems

8

Women in hispanic poetry / Feminist poetry

Alejandra Pizarnik

Alfonsina Storni

Delmira Agustini

9

Mexico

José Emilio Pacheco

Octavio Paz

Jaime Sabines

Rosario Castellanos

10

Cuba

José Martí – Dos Patrias, Nuestra América

Afro-Cuban poetry

Nicolas Guillén

11

Social poetry

How poetry can become political / Social poetry across Latin America

C.A.D.A. in Chile (Raúl Zurita)

12

Contemporary hispanic poetry

Contemporary Hispanic Poets: Cultural Production in the Global, Digital Age by John Burns

Latino authors across Americas / Insta poetry/ Poetry readings / What is poetry in 2021?