Week Nine
M 10/21
Discussion of Joyce Carol Oates
W 10/25 Discussion Colonel Carolyn Forche (in class reading of poem)
Homework: New York School
Frank O'Hara bio and all poems
Kenneth Koch One Train...
Charles Bukowski readings
At your leisure:
http://bukowski.net/poems/
Week 10/28-10/30
M NY School discussion, Bukowski.
W Discussion: NY continued
Homework: Selected readings: Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell.
All biographical material and all poems. Plus, any additional selections from your books on any of the three.
Week 11/04-11/06
M Bukowski discussion
W Test on NY school and Bukowski. The Confessionalists Discussion. (Links above will provide the selections.
Homework: Reading: Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, Michael Cunningham’s White Angel,
Miranda July: The Shared Patio
**Your ekphrastic pieces and process papers (500 words minimum) are due on Monday 11/25.
The short version of this assignment is that you will be responding or imitating a piece of literature through visual art. Examples abound: W.H. Auden’s Musee de Beaux Art or WCW’s Icarus (myth-painting-poem). Or Charles Simic’s poems that respond to Joseph Cornell’s boxes (for the reverse). Consider the poetry poem: http://www.tcj.com/a-bianca-stone-interview/
Week 11/11-11/13
M Confessionalists continued
Week 11/11-11/13
M Confessionalists continued
W Cunningham and Baldwin discussion
Week 11/18-1120
Week 11/18-1120
MONDAY 11/18 Stories Discussion continued (including Miranda July)
6:30 p.m. MIRANDA JULY YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS, I PROMISE!!
W 11/20 Discussion of readings continued.
Week 11/25-11/27
M/25 Discussion. Ekphrastic pieces to be presented. Process papers (only) to be turned in to me.
W THANKSGIVING BREAK! Safe travels and happy Thanksgiving!
Week 12/01-12/03
M Selection of one work or author we've not yet discussed to be "taught" by your group. Individual process sheets describing the division of labor due FROM EACH group member.
W Presentations
Week 12/08-12/10
M Group Presentations
W TBA
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