Because all of the work I did to prepare specific instructions for each class for Thursday doesn't seem to be in the syllabus installment section, I am going to make sure you all have a sense of your homework here: (I did announce in class what each class would be doing, but I would like those of you checking the blog to be able to confirm.)
Writing Poetry: You have yours still, for some reason, so you're good to go. The next poems we will be workshopping are your ekprhastics, formal and yes, the imitation.
Writing Fiction: You had that same gallery assignment with the museum visit, selection of a piece of art (write down title and artist) and then a list of 30 concrete words from the piece. (Example Van Gogh's Starry Night Indigo, Mustard, Star, Shaggy, Thick, Tree, Water, Night, etc.) Using as many words from the list as possible, write a scene. You can use an existing piece of fiction, write something new, you can choose to have your character be in the painting or an object or person that has some stake in the scene depicted in the painting. It's a wide open field on how you further tackle the assignment. These pieces will be due for small group workshops on
Tuesday 10/04 Workshop Group Three
Group Four Distributes Stories
Thursday 10/06 Workshop Four
Homework: Make sure that your ekphrasis scenes are typed-up and ready to discuss in small groups on Tuesday 10/11. Also, read this & these two Raymond Carver stories. 1 2
If the links don't work, please google and find the full text for Barry Hannah's Water Liars and Raymond Carver's Cathedral and A Small Good Thing. These stories are to be read by Thursday.
Tuesday 10/11 Small Group Discussion of Ekphrastic stories.
Thursday 10/13 Discussion of Carver and Hannah stories.
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CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
Thursday 09/27 Movie The Yellow Wallpaper
(A bust, I know. We'll make it up somehow--sorry for the dead vhs, I had not viewed it before and didn't know.)
HOMEWORK: Read T.S. Eliot's biographical information and The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock at Poets.org. (It is the site for the Academy of American Poets.) You can google it and it will be there.
Additionally, at the same site, read the biographical paragraphs and poems of Wallace Stevens and EACH POEM from Sunday Morning DOWN. In other words, go to Wallace Stevens on the Academy of American Poetry site, read the info about him and then there will be links to the poems on the right (just like with T.S. Eliot) and those, beginning with the poem called Sunday Morning until the final poem in the list should be read and ready for discussion. Looking forward to seeing you all Tuesday to dive into Modernism!
Friday, September 30, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Hey Lovelies, One and All: Take Note
Think about trying to submit here. The guidelines ask for art and mixed media and well, read up and see if you'd like to prepare something for it. I would be more than happy to help.
Also, Fiction, DON'T forget Esquire.
Also, Fiction, DON'T forget Esquire.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Interesting Links on the Writing Process (All Classes Read) and a REMINDER
Lisa Olstein interview. Check out the impetus for her latest book. The moths and research.
And this adaptation. You guys could do something like this in a screenplay class and then build your own sets. It could be a school-wide collaboration. In any case, you might want to check it out. It is not so far away that going to see it would be impossible.
Jacqueline Osherow's book should be ordered soon. October will be upon us before long.
And this adaptation. You guys could do something like this in a screenplay class and then build your own sets. It could be a school-wide collaboration. In any case, you might want to check it out. It is not so far away that going to see it would be impossible.
Jacqueline Osherow's book should be ordered soon. October will be upon us before long.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Syllabus Installment 09/15/11-10/06/11
Writing Poetry
09/15 Thursday
Workshop continues
Homework: Read all of Elizabeth Bishop's selections and Trout by Kathryn Starbuck. As well as all of the Frank O'Hara selections here.
09/20 Tuesday
Workshop completion, discussion of readings.
Homework: Read Terrance Hayes (all) Richard Siken
and all of the poems in the various links for Ilya Kaminsky (there's lots of repetition, just skip around and graze)
and all of the poems here for Simone Muench. Consider how the New York School (O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, others) are working to influence the work of these contemporary poets. Consider which "moves" you would like to adopt for your next workshop poem (the imitation).
Thursday: 09/22
Discussion.
From the pieces that we've read, choose a poem to imitate. The imitation poem will be due on TUESDAY 10/04
09/27 Tues. Completion of workshop pieces. Discussion of some of the poets we've read.
Homework: Formal poetry readings: Elizabeth Bishop One Art and Sestina (the link is above and yes, I know you've read her but focus in on these two in particular for the formal poetry assignment.)
Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.
09/29 Thurs. Gallery/Museum ekphrasis assignment. Meet in class, go on to any of the exhibits on campus (the museum is probably your best bet). Select a piece of art and list at least 30 concrete words from it, (be sure to take down the title and artist as well) and write a poem that in some way engages with the art. You can write from the perspective of a character or object in the piece or simply use the words to form a poem with some of the same descriptive terms. You can write to the artist or as the artist in the poem. This will be due, typed, for Tuesday October 4.
10/04 Tues. Discussion of formal verse
Gallery Poems Due. Bring enough copies for all of us.
Homework: Read and comment upon the Ekphrastic poems. Be ready to discuss the poems thoroughly and thoughtfully and to have many comments written upon them before workshop. (You can write more during, as well.)
10/06 Thurs. Workshop of Ekphrastic Poems.
Homework: Have formal poems ready for next week.
Writing Fiction
09/15 Thursday
Workshop Group One.
Tuesday 09/21
Discussion of Readings.
Group Two stories due for distribution.
Contemporary Lit.
09/15 Thursday
Video: Dickinson, Whitman: Bio plus poems the to right, particularly America, I Sing the Body Electric, When I Heard the Learned... and When Lilacs Last...
09/20 Tuesday:
Have all Dickinson and Whitman selections read and your letters ready to read in groups.
You will be turning them into me on Thursday (slight extension). In your groups, you will read each letter and write the author a note about where the letter works best, where it gets confusing or could be improved. Feel free to suggest wild and interesting edits or revisions. This is the author's chance to really spruce the piece up before it gets turned in officially.
09/22 Thursday
Letters to be turned in to me at the beginning of class: typed, proofread, etc.
Discussion of Dickinson and Whitman.
Homework: Read Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
AND
A Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf. Be able to discuss the stream-of-consciousness in Woolf's piece and what effect it has.
09/15 Thursday
Workshop continues
Homework: Read all of Elizabeth Bishop's selections and Trout by Kathryn Starbuck. As well as all of the Frank O'Hara selections here.
09/20 Tuesday
Workshop completion, discussion of readings.
Homework: Read Terrance Hayes (all) Richard Siken
and all of the poems in the various links for Ilya Kaminsky (there's lots of repetition, just skip around and graze)
and all of the poems here for Simone Muench. Consider how the New York School (O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, James Schuyler, John Ashbery, others) are working to influence the work of these contemporary poets. Consider which "moves" you would like to adopt for your next workshop poem (the imitation).
Thursday: 09/22
Discussion.
From the pieces that we've read, choose a poem to imitate. The imitation poem will be due on TUESDAY 10/04
09/27 Tues. Completion of workshop pieces. Discussion of some of the poets we've read.
Homework: Formal poetry readings: Elizabeth Bishop One Art and Sestina (the link is above and yes, I know you've read her but focus in on these two in particular for the formal poetry assignment.)
Dylan Thomas Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.
09/29 Thurs. Gallery/Museum ekphrasis assignment. Meet in class, go on to any of the exhibits on campus (the museum is probably your best bet). Select a piece of art and list at least 30 concrete words from it, (be sure to take down the title and artist as well) and write a poem that in some way engages with the art. You can write from the perspective of a character or object in the piece or simply use the words to form a poem with some of the same descriptive terms. You can write to the artist or as the artist in the poem. This will be due, typed, for Tuesday October 4.
10/04 Tues. Discussion of formal verse
Gallery Poems Due. Bring enough copies for all of us.
Homework: Read and comment upon the Ekphrastic poems. Be ready to discuss the poems thoroughly and thoughtfully and to have many comments written upon them before workshop. (You can write more during, as well.)
10/06 Thurs. Workshop of Ekphrastic Poems.
Homework: Have formal poems ready for next week.
Writing Fiction
09/15 Thursday
Workshop Group One.
Tuesday 09/21
Discussion of Readings.
Group Two stories due for distribution.
Contemporary Lit.
09/15 Thursday
Video: Dickinson, Whitman: Bio plus poems the to right, particularly America, I Sing the Body Electric, When I Heard the Learned... and When Lilacs Last...
09/20 Tuesday:
Have all Dickinson and Whitman selections read and your letters ready to read in groups.
You will be turning them into me on Thursday (slight extension). In your groups, you will read each letter and write the author a note about where the letter works best, where it gets confusing or could be improved. Feel free to suggest wild and interesting edits or revisions. This is the author's chance to really spruce the piece up before it gets turned in officially.
09/22 Thursday
Letters to be turned in to me at the beginning of class: typed, proofread, etc.
Discussion of Dickinson and Whitman.
Homework: Read Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper
AND
A Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf. Be able to discuss the stream-of-consciousness in Woolf's piece and what effect it has.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
To Start Our Week
Some senior citizen stripping action. Seriously, listen for the fun similes and use of poetic terms throughout.
Then, for interesting use of figurative language and really, just because she makes me smile:
Then, for interesting use of figurative language and really, just because she makes me smile:
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
This Week:
09/06/11 Tuesday Writing Poetry
In class discussion of the poetic terms assignment.
Homework: Write at least ten couplets and follow the instructions for part two of your homework for the specifics. Bring in typed on Thursday for discussion.
09/08/11 Thursday: We'll discuss your couplets in groups, as a class.
Homework: Write a poem that will be used for your first workshop piece. Bring it in, typed, with copies enough for the class. We'll workshop through next week. Consider the need for lots of concrete, specific detail and feel free to revise/rewrite/edit the couplets assignment into that final draft of a poem for the workshop. Make sure your poem has a title and is proofread carefully.
Writing Fiction
09/06/11 Tuesday: Discussion Lorrie Moore. In-class writing.
Homework: Write an opening that imitates one of the stories we have read. Bring in enough copies to distribute it to your groups. (4-5)
09/08/11 Thursday: Group work with your story openings.
Homework: Read this Amy Hempel story. Group One have your first stories (3-5 pages) ready to distribute to the class on Tuesday. Group Two you will distribute on Thursday.
09/13/11 Tuesday Discussion of Hempel story. Homework: Read Group One's stories carefully and comment on them profusely. Write a final note of 250 words minimum that summarizes your advice and suggested edits for the piece. Don't forget to include the things that are working for it and those which you admire.
09/15/11 Thursday Group One Workshop. Group Two distributes stories.
Contemporary Literature
Tuesday 09/06/11 Discussion of Hemingway and Fitzgerald
Homework: Read Langston Hughes, the biographical material and all of the poems on the links to the right.
Check out Zelda Fitzgerald's artwork and paperdolls.
Thursday 09/09/11 Discussion of Jazz Age/Harlem Renaissance continues. Voices and Visions Langston Hughes, likely.
Read: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.
Tuesday 09/13/11 Discussion.
Thursday 09/15/11 Discussion.
Homework: Write a letter to one of the writers we've read. Discuss, in detail, some of the topics or a particular topic of their work. Feel free to agree, celebrate, disagree or question.
In class discussion of the poetic terms assignment.
Homework: Write at least ten couplets and follow the instructions for part two of your homework for the specifics. Bring in typed on Thursday for discussion.
09/08/11 Thursday: We'll discuss your couplets in groups, as a class.
Homework: Write a poem that will be used for your first workshop piece. Bring it in, typed, with copies enough for the class. We'll workshop through next week. Consider the need for lots of concrete, specific detail and feel free to revise/rewrite/edit the couplets assignment into that final draft of a poem for the workshop. Make sure your poem has a title and is proofread carefully.
Writing Fiction
09/06/11 Tuesday: Discussion Lorrie Moore. In-class writing.
Homework: Write an opening that imitates one of the stories we have read. Bring in enough copies to distribute it to your groups. (4-5)
09/08/11 Thursday: Group work with your story openings.
Homework: Read this Amy Hempel story. Group One have your first stories (3-5 pages) ready to distribute to the class on Tuesday. Group Two you will distribute on Thursday.
09/13/11 Tuesday Discussion of Hempel story. Homework: Read Group One's stories carefully and comment on them profusely. Write a final note of 250 words minimum that summarizes your advice and suggested edits for the piece. Don't forget to include the things that are working for it and those which you admire.
09/15/11 Thursday Group One Workshop. Group Two distributes stories.
Contemporary Literature
Tuesday 09/06/11 Discussion of Hemingway and Fitzgerald
Homework: Read Langston Hughes, the biographical material and all of the poems on the links to the right.
Check out Zelda Fitzgerald's artwork and paperdolls.
Thursday 09/09/11 Discussion of Jazz Age/Harlem Renaissance continues. Voices and Visions Langston Hughes, likely.
Read: Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman.
Tuesday 09/13/11 Discussion.
Thursday 09/15/11 Discussion.
Homework: Write a letter to one of the writers we've read. Discuss, in detail, some of the topics or a particular topic of their work. Feel free to agree, celebrate, disagree or question.
Jacqueline Osherow (textbook)
Attn: Contemporary Lit. & Writing Poetry
Please note that Jacqueline Osherow's book, Whitethorn is required and must be available and in class with you by no later than October 1.
Writing Fiction: Osherow will be visiting our classes and her poetry is very narrative (story) in the best ways, while I am not requiring it for your classes, she will be here and willing to sign and discuss the poems. The reading on Monday October 24 is required but the book's purchase for your class is optional but recommended.
Please note that Jacqueline Osherow's book, Whitethorn is required and must be available and in class with you by no later than October 1.
Writing Fiction: Osherow will be visiting our classes and her poetry is very narrative (story) in the best ways, while I am not requiring it for your classes, she will be here and willing to sign and discuss the poems. The reading on Monday October 24 is required but the book's purchase for your class is optional but recommended.
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