Russell Edson:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181155
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181159
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181158

A site with Zelda's aesthetic reflected a bit

One of your peers suggested this and I think the work does feel like something Zelda would like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd7yyJLQHVk

LA 496 Some love letters that set the Jazz Age stage

http://books.google.com/books?id=06dfjTPN4F8C&dq=f.+scott+fitzgerald&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=txjyLZGcuD&sig=9zNLE8826OgRmj9W9Jwzbg_3Eik&hl=en&ei=RK27SqeSIJPIlAerqcW9DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Fiction Peeps

A little outside glance on some of Lorrie Moore's new work. (I like the voice in this blog.)
http://www.fringemagazine.org/blog/lorrie-moores-writing-broke-my-heart-in-a-bad-way/

An extra prompt:

Using this trigger statement:
We left there for so many reasons, only two involved the stray dog, and one led us to....

Fiction Workshops, Botticelli Staff, Anyone Interested in Sending Work Out

A huge magazine that just started this "best starts" feature and is directing it towards new writers.
http://www.glimmertrain.com//beststart.html
Some great prompts:
http://www.iceflow.com/doorknobs/DB.html
Art & Lit interactive journal:
http://www.bornmagazine.org/mother.html

AND THESE!
http://www.wavepoetry.com/erasures/
addictive as baked-kale chips. (Seriously, try one and see if you can quit.)

FOR CONTEMPORARY LIT:

T 09/22 Discussion Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes.
Be able to tell what Billie Holiday’s song Strange Fruit is about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs

Homework: More Jazz Age authors (you’ve already read a little Hemingway). Lots of stuff to look at and read over. I want you to be able to discuss the time, Zelda’s art, as well as the texts we will be discussing in class.

Overview of era:
http://library.thinkquest.org/17126/chapter/18.html
http://reading.cornell.edu/reading_project_06/gatsby/jazz_age.htm
http://reading.cornell.edu/reading_project_06/gatsby/f_scott_fitzgerald.htm

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald:
http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/fitzgeralds/paintings/paintings.asp
http://www.zeldafitzgerald.com/fitzgeralds/index.asp
http://thepapercollector.blogspot.com/2008/11/zelda-fitzgerald-paper-dolls.html

FYI:
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/obituaries.html
For fun:
Flapper Radio
http://www.bassocantante.com/flapper/music.html

H 09/24 Discussion Jazz Age.

Homework: Introduction to Modernism
Read: Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

P.S. Please note and begin planning for your assignment due on October 8 at the beginning of class.

T 09/29 Modernism
Homework: Wallace Stevens selections:

H 10/01 Modernism continues

T 10/06 TBA

H 10/08 Discussion and

HARLEM REN/JAZZ AGE ASSIGNMENTS DUE:
Response to one of the pieces we have not discussed in class. For this assignment, I would like for you to respond with a poem, short story, dramatic monologue, scene, letter or essay form to one of the pieces we have read for class or (with my approval) a piece from the time period that was not assigned. Your responses should be a minimum of five-hundred words. If you choose to respond in poetry (say formal verse) you will need to write the poem and then a two hundred word “process” piece that explains how the work influenced yours, what artistic decisions and deviations you made, formal strategies or the decision to work against form are all things that you might address. These assignments will be letter-graded and are expected to be typed, proofread and edited before they come to me.