Ken Fields, Professor

Primary Office: 460-217
Office Hours: Tues. 10-11, 3-4 & Wed. 3-4
Office Phone: 650-723-1201

At Stanford Since: 1967

Email: fields@stanford.edu

Current Year's Courses:

Graduate Poetry Workshop

American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore

Angelheaded Hipsters: Beat Writers of San Francisco and New York

Development of the Literary Essay

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Kenneth Fields' collections of poetry are The Other Walker, Sunbelly, Smoke, The Odysseus Manuscripts, and Anemographia: A Treatise on the Wind. He has completed the manuscripts of two other collections: Classic Rough News and Music from Another Room. His current projects are a novel, Father of Mercies, and a collection of essays on Mina Loy, H.D., Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, J.V. Cunningham, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Ben Jonson, Wallace Stevens, Jorge Luis Borges, Henri Coulette, and others. Fields teaches the Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop for the Stanford Writing Fellows. He is developing a two-part course in American film, Men in the Movies: Film Noir and the Western. He delivered the Russel B. Nye Lecture at Michigan State University's American Studies Program: "There Stands the Glass: Voices of Alcohol in Country Music."