I would love to see you guys try your hand at this.
Advanced Creative Writing, I am going to make this one of your assignments for the poetry unit. It will be due in class on April 9--a week from this coming Monday. You will get in groups, workshop it and make it tight for the contest. Part of the assignment will be to then submit it. Start looking NOW for articles.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Syllabus Update for Honors Ekphrasis Class
SPRING BREAK
Week Ten: 03/27-29
T: Discussion of process for Cornell projects. Revisiting our imaginary artists. Add or alter three aspects of their bios. Get ready to work with them more.
H: Cornell boxes due and to be presented.
Homework: From the perspective of your imagined artist, write a letter for The Note Swap project: http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/noteswap#
Make sure to follow their guidelines.
Homework: Read all of Inflorescence. Be ready to discuss it by next week.
Week Ten: 04/03-05
T: Discussion of Sarah Hannah
H: Continued.
Homework: Come up with some way to use Hannah’s work to celebrate national poetry month. We can brainstorm various ideas in class.
Work on group project: The Puberty Doll. Consider what political and social statements your project might encounter. How to make use of these. Be ready to talk about that as a group.
Read this article and we’ll discuss the photograph and language as photograph. How does it stop time? How does it record the nothing that is not there and nothing that is. (in the words of Wallace Stevens.)
Week Eleven: 04/10-12
T: Discussion of Meitner and the way pictures operate with text and time.
H: Group Work on Film/Video Piece
Homework: after receiving your one line for the Poetry Scores project, begin to construct your piece of art for it. These will be due April 24
Read
Cezanne’s Carrot, Essay: Calm Things
Poetry month projects/Honors Symposium
Week Thirteen 4/17 4/19
T: Discussion Cezanne
H: Imaginary Artist Wikipedia page due
In class: Go to SEVERAL places on campus where there is artwork displayed and find:
1. A piece that is a work of ekphrasis in some way. Bring a title and description back to class to explain why.
2. A piece that has been influenced in some way by your imaginary artist. Get its title and description and tell us why or how. (You can incorporate this information into a later version of the wikipedia page to be displayed with your piece for the Honors show.) I understand that you will be making up the influence, but I am asking you to imagine that the work of this person has a certain voice, style, tone, themes, colors, shapes, etc. and that you can extrapolate from that to see how a piece could seem "influenced" by yours. )
Homework: Reading from Poets and Painters to be assigned in class or later today.
Week Fourteen 4/24 4/26
T: Presentation of Poetry Score Project
H: TBA
Week Fifteen 5/1- 5/3
T: TBA
H: Final Project Presentations
Week Sixteen
5/8- 5/10 TBA (likely a film)
Week Ten: 03/27-29
T: Discussion of process for Cornell projects. Revisiting our imaginary artists. Add or alter three aspects of their bios. Get ready to work with them more.
H: Cornell boxes due and to be presented.
Homework: From the perspective of your imagined artist, write a letter for The Note Swap project: http://www.arthousecoop.com/projects/noteswap#
Make sure to follow their guidelines.
Homework: Read all of Inflorescence. Be ready to discuss it by next week.
Week Ten: 04/03-05
T: Discussion of Sarah Hannah
H: Continued.
Homework: Come up with some way to use Hannah’s work to celebrate national poetry month. We can brainstorm various ideas in class.
Work on group project: The Puberty Doll. Consider what political and social statements your project might encounter. How to make use of these. Be ready to talk about that as a group.
Read this article and we’ll discuss the photograph and language as photograph. How does it stop time? How does it record the nothing that is not there and nothing that is. (in the words of Wallace Stevens.)
Week Eleven: 04/10-12
T: Discussion of Meitner and the way pictures operate with text and time.
H: Group Work on Film/Video Piece
Homework: after receiving your one line for the Poetry Scores project, begin to construct your piece of art for it. These will be due April 24
Read
Cezanne’s Carrot, Essay: Calm Things
Poetry month projects/Honors Symposium
Week Thirteen 4/17 4/19
T: Discussion Cezanne
H: Imaginary Artist Wikipedia page due
In class: Go to SEVERAL places on campus where there is artwork displayed and find:
1. A piece that is a work of ekphrasis in some way. Bring a title and description back to class to explain why.
2. A piece that has been influenced in some way by your imaginary artist. Get its title and description and tell us why or how. (You can incorporate this information into a later version of the wikipedia page to be displayed with your piece for the Honors show.) I understand that you will be making up the influence, but I am asking you to imagine that the work of this person has a certain voice, style, tone, themes, colors, shapes, etc. and that you can extrapolate from that to see how a piece could seem "influenced" by yours. )
Homework: Reading from Poets and Painters to be assigned in class or later today.
Week Fourteen 4/24 4/26
T: Presentation of Poetry Score Project
H: TBA
Week Fifteen 5/1- 5/3
T: TBA
H: Final Project Presentations
Week Sixteen
5/8- 5/10 TBA (likely a film)
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Contemporary Literature
Tuesday: Discussion of Modernism. Finish with Stevens, start Eliot, Williams
Readings:
T.S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams (bio & poems)
Marianne Moore (bio & poems)
Thursday Discussion of readings
Homework: Read Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
And White Angel by Michael Cunningham
To Robby by John Edgar Wideman
Week of April 3
Tuesday: Discussion of readings.
Readings:
T.S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams (bio & poems)
Marianne Moore (bio & poems)
Elizabeth Bishop (bio & poems)
Thursday Discussion of readings
Homework: Read Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin
And White Angel by Michael Cunningham
To Robby by John Edgar Wideman
Week of April 3
Tuesday: Discussion of readings.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Advanced Creative Writing Reminder
Tomorrow is the final visiting writer. I have a health insurance meeting to attend and will likely be late, but I will be there and would like to see all of you there.
Remember that we will be writing letters to each of our writers being workshopped for this week and for last. Writers, I will expect you to keep track of the notes you receive.
Also, I want to be sure that these workshops are giving you all that you need from them. In the interest of dong that, I will be asking that there be a designated scribe for each person being workshopped. This person will note what is being said during your workshop and will note ALL that he or she is able to capture (or quickly summarize) of the conversation.
It has been my experience that we all experience something that I call "workshop ears" during our own workshops and that leads us to hear all of the negative comments only, even neutral comments become negative comments and constructive criticism gets heard as mere criticism. We rarely hear the good things and tune in very closely to those things that we hear as harsh or negative. I want to be sure that we serve one another well by noting all that is good and accomplished as well as what might need to be reconsidered.
Beyond any of that, the most valuable thing you can learn from how a roomful of readers, each with very distinct libraries, read you is that only some of them will ever be your kind of reader. That doesn't mean that there is no value in being read by those who read other types of things. It means that you get a variety of vantage points and those are always valuable, even if only to show you how ONE person might read what you wrote.
Remember that we will be writing letters to each of our writers being workshopped for this week and for last. Writers, I will expect you to keep track of the notes you receive.
Also, I want to be sure that these workshops are giving you all that you need from them. In the interest of dong that, I will be asking that there be a designated scribe for each person being workshopped. This person will note what is being said during your workshop and will note ALL that he or she is able to capture (or quickly summarize) of the conversation.
It has been my experience that we all experience something that I call "workshop ears" during our own workshops and that leads us to hear all of the negative comments only, even neutral comments become negative comments and constructive criticism gets heard as mere criticism. We rarely hear the good things and tune in very closely to those things that we hear as harsh or negative. I want to be sure that we serve one another well by noting all that is good and accomplished as well as what might need to be reconsidered.
Beyond any of that, the most valuable thing you can learn from how a roomful of readers, each with very distinct libraries, read you is that only some of them will ever be your kind of reader. That doesn't mean that there is no value in being read by those who read other types of things. It means that you get a variety of vantage points and those are always valuable, even if only to show you how ONE person might read what you wrote.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Adv. Creative Writing Workshop Schedule--UPDATED
This week: February 27
Workshop: M. Nemeth, the Mikes
Distribution: D. Law,
C. Cimoroni, L. Sah, E. Vest
Week of March 5
Workshop: Law, Cimoroni, Sah, Vest
Distribution : S. Diesel, A. Lake
Week of March 12
Workshop: Diesel, Lake
Distribution:A. McCulloch, P. Gaither, C. McDonnell
Plus, read all of the remaining pages of Making Shapely Fiction and be ready to discuss them. AND don't forget the new policy on workshops: you must write a 250 word minimum "letter" to the author of the piece. Authors: please email me a roll sheet after your own workshop and let me know how many stories came back, which people wrote the letters and how useful or plentiful were the comments. Remember that your grade is contingent upon your work as an editor as well as a writer.
Homework: Regardless of your workshop status, please do one page each of the following:
1. Choose three chapters from your book (Stern) and write a minimum of one page for EACH of brand new writing that employs the main advice from each chapter.
Week of March 19--SPRING BREAK
March 26
Workshop: McCulloch, Gaither, McDonnell
Homework: Intro to Poetry. Reading:
Workshop: M. Nemeth, the Mikes
Distribution: D. Law,
C. Cimoroni, L. Sah, E. Vest
Week of March 5
Workshop: Law, Cimoroni, Sah, Vest
Distribution : S. Diesel, A. Lake
Week of March 12
Workshop: Diesel, Lake
Distribution:A. McCulloch, P. Gaither, C. McDonnell
Plus, read all of the remaining pages of Making Shapely Fiction and be ready to discuss them. AND don't forget the new policy on workshops: you must write a 250 word minimum "letter" to the author of the piece. Authors: please email me a roll sheet after your own workshop and let me know how many stories came back, which people wrote the letters and how useful or plentiful were the comments. Remember that your grade is contingent upon your work as an editor as well as a writer.
Homework: Regardless of your workshop status, please do one page each of the following:
1. Choose three chapters from your book (Stern) and write a minimum of one page for EACH of brand new writing that employs the main advice from each chapter.
Week of March 19--SPRING BREAK
March 26
Workshop: McCulloch, Gaither, McDonnell
Homework: Intro to Poetry. Reading:
ALL STUDENTS VERY URGENT
Hey Gang,
I am asking a big favor, something that you can do quickly but something that also must be done right away.
A poet and professor whom many of us loved and admired is being remembered in an indie film that someone is trying to make. Today. Monday over at Kickstart, votes are being gathered until 11:00 a.m. PLEASE kindly vote and get everyone you know to do so, as well. It would mean so much to get this film made and to be able to use it to teach this incredible poet's inspiring work.
Thanks so much.
Your Grateful Teacher
I am asking a big favor, something that you can do quickly but something that also must be done right away.
A poet and professor whom many of us loved and admired is being remembered in an indie film that someone is trying to make. Today. Monday over at Kickstart, votes are being gathered until 11:00 a.m. PLEASE kindly vote and get everyone you know to do so, as well. It would mean so much to get this film made and to be able to use it to teach this incredible poet's inspiring work.
Thanks so much.
Your Grateful Teacher
Friday, March 9, 2012
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