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"Introduction to American Poetry". This course traces American poetry’s evolution from the mid-19th century through the 21st century, focusing on how poets articulate individual and collective identity within shifting social and political systems. Beginning with Whitman and Dickinson, the syllabus centers on how race, ethnicity, and politics shape poetic form and voice across Modernism, the postwar period, and experimental waves. The course ends with contemporary digital and performative poetics, emphasizing poetry as a system of language, identity, and technology.