WRITING FICTION

H 01/27 Discussion of Girl by Jamaica Kinkaid
Assigned Groups and order for workshop.
Read: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Some assignments to choose from:

Trigger Sentences:
1. We were not getting any____________, there was ______________ to consider and ______________

2.After____________, things changed, not in _____________ ways but _______________

3.Believe something, ___ told ___________, even if it's_________________

4. The ingredients are the same for_____________ as for_____________

Or set a scene in a place that contains trees. Have a character engaging with the landscape in some way while another character tells a story.

Or write a scene in which two characters are disagreeing over something based on a mishearing. Include a kind of soda and a day of the week.

Reading Homework for Poetry of Survival and Contemporary Lit.

http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns61/wilson.htm

Unemployment

Meteoric Rise, The Saint..., Closer to TX(read all but Goodbye Tuscaloosa and look for themes that deal with class, witness, survival, the political issues we have been discussing.)

Designing a Bird from Memory http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/designing/


First reading assignment for Against Forgetting
All of the Intro. p. 29-47
Make notes and think about the issues Forche mentions in light of the poems we've been reading so far.

Reading Homework for Poetry of Survival and Contemporary Lit.

Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden

Elegy for Jane Theodore Roethke

September 1, 1939 W.H. Auden

Analysis of the poem, be prepared to discuss her argument and your agreement or disagreement with it. (Print and notate it.)

Channel Firing Thomas Hardy

WRITING FICTION

HOMEWORK:
Read Jamaica Kinkaid's Girl: http://www.my-island-jamaica.com/girl_by_jamaica_kincaid.html

For those of you who were stuck on the internal monologue assignment, this might help you generate a piece.

Remember to type in what you have and bring it to class to discuss what you wrote or (if you want to) to read it or part of it aloud.

READING LIST FOR LA496-02 Contemporary Literature

What: LA496-02 Contemporary Literature
When: Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30-1:50
Where: KH 224
Who: Sophia Kartsonis
How:
Required Texts:
Against Forgetting, edited by Carolyn Forche. Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; ISBN-10: 0393309762
All Screwed-Up by Steve Fellner. Publisher: Benu Press; First edition (June 8, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0981516335 ISBN-13: 978-0981516332

READING LIST FOR LA498-05 Poetry of Witness & Survival

What: LA498-05 The Poetry of Witness & Survival
When: Tuesdays & Thursdays 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Where: KH 224
Who: Instructor; Sophia Kartsonis
How:
Required Texts:
Against Forgetting, edited by Carolyn Forche. Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; ISBN-10: 0393309762
Sasha Sings Laundry on the Line by Sean Thomas Dougherty Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd. (September 21, 2010) ISBN-10: 1934414395 ISBN-13: 978-1934414392
Blind Date with Cavafy by Steve Fellner
Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press (March 31, 2007) ISBN-10: 097855552X ISBN-13: 978-0978555528

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