496.01 T-H

Charles Bukowski readings

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-bukowski

At your leisure:

http://bukowski.net/poems/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsc3ItAKSLc

Week 10/29-10/31

T NY School discussion

H Discussion: NY continued

Homework:  Selected readings: Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell.

Week 11/05-11/07

T  Bukowski discussion

H The Confessionalists Discussion.

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 Tuesday 11/26. 

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 11/12-11/14
T Confessionalists continued

H Cunningham and Baldwin discussion

Week 11/19-11/21

MONDAY 11/18  Stories Discussion continued (including Miranda July)

 6:30 p.m. MIRANDA JULY YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS, I PROMISE!!

T 11/20  Discussion of readings continued.  
H 11/22 TBA

Week 11/26-11/28

T 26 Discussion. Ekphrastic pieces to be presented. Process papers (only) to be turned in to me.

H THANKSGIVING BREAK!  Safe travels and happy Thanksgiving!

Week 12/02-12/04

T  Group Presentations of Essays from Touchstone Anthology. (There will be an oral and written component for each group member. More details forthcoming.)

H  Group Presentations continued

Week 12/09-12/11

M  Group Presentations

W TBA

496.02 M-W

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

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/charles-bukowski

At your leisure:

http://bukowski.net/poems/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsc3ItAKSLc

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

W Cunningham and Baldwin discussion

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

LA 190 Syllabus Update

Week Nine  10/21-10/23

M  Discussion towards research essay

http://www.ted.com/talks/milton_glaser_on_using_design_to_make_ideas_new.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XM3vWJmpfo

Salon Response Essayhttp://www.salon.com/2011/10/24/can_a_portlandia_comedy_sketch_destroy_a_fashion_trend/

W  

Week Ten 10/28-10/30

M Jay Z Picasso Baby

Homework: Read  Jerry Saltz  Ben Davis The Jealous Curator

Choose five of the names referenced in the Saltz article and find one article on them to cite as if doing an MLA citation for your research paper.

Example: Marina Abramovic
1.  "I am not a Vampire." The Guardian. Jonathan Jones Blog. July 2013.

For the final piece of this assignment, write a one-line artist or thesis statement for what you think that Jay Z was attempting in his video. (As if you are Jay Z.) This should be YOUR idea of what HIS idea might be. (Do not look for his words on the matter, use your own.)

W Citations and "thesis" due.
Building Block One Due

Week Eleven  11/-04-11/06

M Conferences (Hills) Come on time for your designated conference.
W Conferences (Hills)

BUILDING BLOCK ONE:BB#1: Debatable Question Worksheet

Think about your topic for a while and then start to draft a question that asks something debatable about that topic. Revise your debatable question so that it can be as specific as possible. When you have settled on a topic and feel confident about your question, type this information at the top of a document using the following template.

Art and Design Area of Interest:

Topic:

Debatable Question:

Here are a few examples:

Art and Design Area of Interest: Fashion

Topic:  Body Image

Debatable Question: What can designers do to help reverse the trend of the “skinny” model?

Art and Design Area of Interest: Fine Arts

Topic: Foundations/Skills

Debatable Question: Are there a set of foundational skills that all fine artists require, and if so, what are they?  

Once you have filled out the above template, write 150 words about why you have chosen this topic.

Three Things to Enhance Your Weekend

http://youtu.be/zQucWXWXp3k


http://youtu.be/K8k9rD7lx9c



http://youtu.be/ltun92DfnPY
Two suggested by your peers and one by one of mine. All amazing. Enjoy!

LA 190

This is an artist that I have always found to be pretty interesting both her life and her work.
Remember that your research papers are next and that any ideas that you've unearthed during this process that seemed too large for the paper you are doing now, might lend themselves nicely to your research papers.

LA-496-01 T-H Changes in Due Dates

 Look over these forms:  sestina, sonnet, and villanelle, and begin to decide which you will imitate (and discuss in a 300 word minimum formal letter to your readers).  We will look over some examples for both components of this assignment: due 10/11

H 10/02    “  “  “ continued.Formal verse discussion

Week Seven

T 10/08 Formal Poem discussion completed 

Homework: Read  Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Cathedral by Raymond Carver. 

H10/11    Discussion:     Walker/Carver

Homework: Read Natasha Trethaway's Thrall entire.

Week  Eight

T 10/15 Discussion of Thrall   FORMAL POEMS DUE TODAY
Homework: Reading Where are You Going, Where Have You Been Joyce Carol Oates (anthology)

10/16WEDNESDAY: 6:30 Canzani Auditorium. Natasha Trethewey visit. MANDATORY.     

H 10/17   Discussion Oates

LA 190--Don't Forget!!

Your first drafts, graded with comments by me, must come in with your final portfolios.
Do NOT lose the papers that I returned to you. Put them in a file to include with your final portfolio.

Today's group work counts as one of your building blocks, but does not need to come in with those final pieces. (Nor does the Miranda July.)