Students will complete ONE weekly 600-1000 word blog posts on readings that definitively ADD to any explicit discussions in class OR what was NOT explicitly discussed in class. In order to receive full credit, each student’s blog post and student comments must be on time.  Comments will require that responses are based on individual insights, reactions to, and close readings of 2 poems by 2 different poets and comment/respond to at least 2 student posts for each blog (4 responses per week). The blogs are due every Friday by 11:59 PM (EST). For full credit, each response will include lines of poetry/quotations from the text and offer a nuanced and critical reading of the poems based on your developing knowledge of Modern and Contemporary Poetry and poetics. In order to prevent grammatical issues, compose responses in a Word document and complete a full grammar and style check. Off-topic blogs will result in a penalty