Poetry in America, in partnership with the National Education Equity Lab, Arizona State University, and ASU Prep Digital, is pleased to the for-credit course Poetry in America: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop to high-school students.
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Led by Harvard Professor Elisa New, this free, not-for-credit online Poetry in America series offered through HarvardX surveys nearly 400 years of American poetry.
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Poetry in America courses for K-12 students combine the flexibility of distance learning with a rigorous academic experience–all within a framework that supports and empowers local learning communities.
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Every semester, hundreds of K-12 teachers from across the United States and around the world enroll in Poetry in America courses at the Harvard Extension School.
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This course focuses on the poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, two influential and iconic American poets of the 19th century whose works gave shape to a uniquely American poetic tradition.
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This for-credit online course spans a critical era in American literature, beginning with antebellum and Civil War poetry, entering the 20th century, and traversing the transformative Modernist era.
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This course will help K-12 teachers explore the intersections of literature and science– and help their students read poems with an eye toward the natural phenomena that inspired them.
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Ranging from Whitman to contemporary hip hop, we will venture into “The City” as represented in American poetry, and bring it to life in the classroom.
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This course covers American poetry in cultural context through the year 1850. Beginning with Puritan poets who lived and wrote in early New England, the second part of the course explores the poetry written directly before and after the creation of the American Republic.
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This sequence of courses, offered by the Harvard Extension School for undergraduate- or graduate-level credit, chronicles the history of American poetry from the Puritans to the present day. Students will complete rigorous analytical assignments and will receive individualized attention and feedback on their work.
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This free, not-for-credit HarvardX course begins with Puritan poets—some orthodox, some rebel spirits—who lived and wrote in early New England, and covers American poetry in cultural context through the year 1700.
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This free, not-for-credit online course explores a diverse array of American Modernist poets and poems written in the decades spanning the 1910s to the mid-1940s. We will study how these poets employed the language of rejection and revolution, of making and remaking, of artistic appropriation and cultural emancipation.
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This free, not-for-credit online course explores the Poetry of the American Civil War and the series of major events and social movements that followed it—including Reconstruction, the Jim Crow Era, and Manifest Destiny.
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This free, not-for-credit online course explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson, one of America’s most distinctive and prolific poets. But, while Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems, she chose never to publish, opting instead to revisit and revise her works throughout her lifetime.
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This free, not-for-credit online course focuses on the poetry of Walt Whitman, a quintessentially American writer whose work continues to bear heavily upon the American poetic tradition.
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This free, not-for-credit online course considers the poetry written in the years directly before and after the birth of the American Republic. It examines the creation of a national identity through the lens of an emerging national literature.
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Poetry in America for HarvardX is a series of free, not-for-credit open online courses that survey nearly 400 years of American poetry.
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