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Coursera: My Coursera Experience: Modern Poetry for a Physics Major
Editor’s Note: This is the third in a series of guest posts from Courserians, called “My Coursera Experience”. My name is Ines Cifuentes. I am 58 and living with Stage 4 breast cancer. One of the tough things about advanced cancer is how much it takes away. My days are long as I can no longer work. I took the Coursera course, “Modern and Contemporary American Poetry”, taught by Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania. I chose it because as a physics major in college I didn’t have time to take a poetry course. When I saw that we would be reading William Carlos Williams, one of my favorite poets, I signed up. I didn’t learn about Coursera until the course had already started so I began the third week in and tried to catch up. I never did; I am now signed up to take it again in September. I am very happy that I can do that. And they are adding Wallace Stevens! It was wonderful to be able to take a class on poetry taught by a fabulous tea…