Busy, Busy

There are so many things I want to write about here. I’d like to write about Joan Retallack’s criticism of fantasy and folklore in her discussion with Quinta Slef, “The Poethical Wager,” in which she claims that “the Grimm fairy tale can render [...] brutality oddly acceptable,” a claim I find very troubling, given my Duncanophilia. I’d like to write about Charles Bernstein’s “sixty-second lecture” “What Makes a Poem a Poem” and how it’s useful for teaching new poetry students about form and poetics. I’d like to write about my honors comp students’ encounters with Foucault’s panopticism, and I’d like to write about the same classes’ work on historical research and how letting them choose topics produced fruitful results. I’d like to write about my Early American lit students’ engagements with poetic form in an imitation of Whitman and of their engagement with Native American culture in an imitation of trickster narratives.

I’ve got to back to grading papers.