“Appreciating Poetry” Instructors

ENG-102 — To explore the many ways in which poems can be enjoyed students will read poems from various authors cultures and ages and will relate the poems to other poems to other works of art and to their own experiences. They will respond to poems in various written and spoken exercises recreating the poems as imaginative events and communicating their appreciation to others.

John Rezmerski

Joyce Sutphen Professor

I teach a range of courses in British Literature and Creative Writing. Though I began as a Shakespearean and continue to write essays on the sonnets and aspects of memory in Shakespeare's plays and poems, I love teaching the Victorian Age and Modern Poetry. Over the last years, I have become very interested in Irish Literature and the London poetry…   (continue reading)

Philip Bryant ’73 Professor

I'm interested in poetry and American culture, Mexican music, jazz and blues, regional (midwest Minnesota writers) literature, African-American, Native American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American poetry literature. I have published two books of poetry.

Robert Kendrick Visiting Assistant Professor