Two topics are offered 2009/2010. Students may take one or both for credit. Topic for Fall 2009: Poetry and Visual Arts. Shared movements, theories and techniques; international modernism and the New York avant-garde; collaborations and exchanges; poems and poets on painting; word/image rivalries and distinctions; Williams, Moore, Stevens, Steins, O’Hara, Ashbery, Graham, others; lots of slides. Topic for Spring 2010: Music and Poetry. An historical survey of the relations between the two arts from the Greeks to the present. Discussions of poetry in many languages; emphasis on English. Chant, song, madrigal, opera, and other forms. Ability to read music is required.