The Summer Session course description for Literature for the 21st Century with correct book list is now up on the NYU website: 

http://www.scps.nyu.edu/course-detail/LITR1-CE9054/20122/literature-for-the-21st-century

The New York Quarterly is hosting its latest poetry reading this Monday 3/19, 6pm at the Cornelia Street Cafe.

Details at: NYQ Reading Series

Here's a set of links to useful resources on Chaucer's language and Middle English:

Chaucer's English, Chaucer's Pronunciation

An analysis of Chaucer's use of iambic pentameter in the context of the "Wife of Bath's Tale":

Iambic Pentameter

Chaucer's meter is a radical departure from the meter of Old English Poetry:

Old English Meter