the places poems make:

charles olson

charles olson
maximus to gloucester, letter 27 [withheld]
march 1966

a professional development workshop for k-12 educators in worcester public schools

workshop objectives

• to consider poetry in relationship to the oral tradition and the literary tradition
• to consider olson's theory of projective verse
• to explore concrete poetry as a compositional practice
• to explore the pedagogies of reader response and teaching the conflicts

event archives

• homepage of the charles olson centenary, worcester, ma, march 25-27, 2010
• homepage of the charles olson centenary conference, simon fraser u., vancouver, bc, june 4-6, 2010
• olson 100, the charles olson society of gloucester, gloucester, ma, september 9-october 10, 2010

links

• archive of olson recordings via pennsound, at u. of pennsylvania
• the charles olson research collection, via the thomas j. dodd research center, at u. of connecticut
• resource page on olson via poetryfoundation.org, including his essay "projective verse" (1950)
• resource page on olson via poets.org
• resource page on olson via the electronic poetry center, at suny buffalo
• resource page on olson via modern american poetry, at u. of illinois
• olsoniana, via jim cocola's homepage, at wpi

primary sources

• charles olson, the collected poems of charles olson: excluding the maximus poems, ed. george f. butterick, berkeley: u of california p, 1997
• charles olson, collected prose, ed. donald allen and benjamin friedlander, berkeley: u of california p, 1997
• charles olson, selected letters, ed. ralph maud, berkeley: u of california p, 2000
• charles olson and frances boldereff, charles olson and frances boldereff: a modern correspondence, ed. ralph maud and sharon thesen, middletown: wesleyan up, 1999
• charles olson and gerard malanga, "the art of poetry no. 12," the paris review 49, summer 1970

secondary sources

• shachar bram, charles olson and alfred north whitehead: an essay on poetry, lewisburg: bucknell up, 2004
• george f. butterick, a guide to the maximus poems of charles olson, berkeley: u of california p, 1980
• laura jehn menides, "the sense of place in kunitz, bishop, and olson," the worcester review 27 (2006): 117-125.
• laura jehn menides, "choosing one's place: charles olson, worcester, and gloucester," the worcester review 7 (1984) 28-36.
• thomas f. merrill, the poetry of charles olson: a primer, newark: u of delaware p, 1982
• robert von hallberg, charles olson: the scholar's art,, cambridge: harvard up, 1978

videos

maximus to gloucester, letter 27 [withheld]	letter #41 [broken off]	the librarian
olson in gloucester, march 1966	from polis is this (2007), dir. henry ferrini	amiri baraka reading olson's "the hustings"

designed and developed by jim cocola, assistant professor of literature, film, and media,
department of humanities and arts, worcester polytechnic institute

last modified : jim cocola : 2010.10.14 15.00
[jcocola at wpi dot edu]