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Since January, I've taught at the University of Montana, Naropa and Bard College. Interacting with roughly 70 students, about half of whom were MFA creative writing candidates, I discussed or recommended these writers, artists and works:
Poetry
-Michael Palmer.
-Myung Mi Kim.
-Harryette Mullen.
-César Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry, as translated by Clayton Eshleman.
-Pablo Neruda's "Walking Around," as translated by W.S. Merwin, and his half great, half awful "Ode to the Sea."
-Attila József's "The Seventh."
-Nazim Hikmet's "On Living."
-Miroslav Holub's "Man Cursing the Sea."
-Jerome Rothenberg's anthology, Technicians of the Sacred.
-Clayton Eshleman's "The Assault."
-Amiri Baraka's 2005, Naples recording of "Somebody Blew Up America."
-Antonin Artaud.
-Henri Michaux.
-Arthur Rimbaud, in particular "Phrases" from Illuminations.
-Charles Baudelaire's Paris Spleen.
-André Breton's "Free Union," as translated by David Antin.
-John Ashbery.
-Joseph Ceravolo.
-Paul Violi's index poem.
-Ron Silliman.
-Kenneth Goldsmith.
-Bern Porter.
-K. Silem Mohammad's Breathalyzer and Deer Head Nation.
-Drew Gardner's "Chicks Dig War."
-Kent Johnson's Homage to the Last Avant Garde.
-Jeff Clark's The Little Door Slides Back.
-Tracie Morris' MP3s, "Black but Beautiful" and "Chain Gang."
-Christian Bök.
-Angela Rawling's reading in Iceland.
-Vietnamese proverbs.

Fiction
-Jorge Luis Borges.
-W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn.
-Ingo Schulze's 33 Moments of Happiness.
-Thomas Bernhard's The Voice Imitator.
-Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron.
-Louis Ferdinand Céline's Death on the Installment Plan.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground.
-Knut Hamsun's Hunger.
-Ernest Hemingway's "A Sea Change."
-Paul Bowles' short stories.
-Harold Brodkey's Stories in an Almost Classical Mode.
-David Foster Wallace's Girl with Curious Hair and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men.
-Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son.
-Annie Proulx' Close Range.
-Sherwood Anderson.
-Kate Chopin's The Awakening.
-Nguyen Huy Thiep's Crossing the River.
-Franz Kafka, in particular his stories of hybrid beings.
-Herman Melville's "Bartleby."
-Michel Houellebecq's The Elementary Particles.
-Yasunari Kawabata's Palm of the Hand Stories.
Non-Fiction
-Susan Sontag's "Regarding the Torture of Others."
-Elias Canetti's Crowds and Power.
-Barbara G. Walker's Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets.
-Andrea Dworkin's Intercourse.
-Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Message.
-James Howard Kunstler's The Geography of Nowhere, The City in Mind, The Long Emergency and his blog, Clusterfuck Nation.
-Mike Davis' City of Quartz and Planet of Slums.
-Milan Kundera's essays.
-Joe Bageant's essays.
-V.S. Naipaul's An Area of Darkness.
-Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and his World.
Visual Artists
-Pierre Bonnard.
-Max Beckman.
-Philip Guston.
-Cindy Sherman.
-Raymond Pettibon.
-Mike Kelley.
-Jim Shaw.
-Martin Kippenberger.
-David Salle.
-Jessica Stockholder.
-Fiona Rae.
-Matthew Barney.
-Jeff Koons.
-Paul McCarthy.
-Lucian Freud.
-Robert Mapplethorpe.
-David Hammond.
-Charles Ray.
-Vanessa Beecroft.
-Ben Katchor (comics).
-Daniel Clowes (comics).