Contemporary Lit. Schedule

Mar. 24-26
M Formal verse discussion. Elizabeth Bishop's Sestina and her villanelle: One Art, as well as Dylan Thomas's Do Not Go Gentle into the Good Night.  (NOTE: Both links to the villanelles can be found off to the left of the description of the villanelle on the link above.)  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-term/sonnet:

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(For Reference) Formal Poems:   Wilfred Owen. John Ashbery, James Cummins, Elizabeth Bishop, (see above) Marianne Moore, Robert Hayden

You can elect to write either a sonnet, villanelle or sestina for your formal verse assignment. That poem, in addition to a short note detailing your process will be due one week from today. 

Reading Homework:  Read:  Everyday Use by Alice Walker. Cathedral by Raymond Carver. (Walker and Carver to be discussed on Monday)

FRIDAY: Screening of Angels in America (Canzani) AND from 5-8  the Botticelli rebranding event in the Canzani atrium. 

Mar 31-April 2

M  Discussion Carver & Walker

W10/08  
Formal Poems  & process notes due at the beginning of class.
HOMEWORK:  Reading

April 7-9

M  Discussion

Homework: 

W Discussion  Formal poems due today.

April 14-16

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April

M NY School Readings. 

H 10/25  Discussion

Homework: Charles Bukowski readings

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

At your leisure:

http://bukowski.net/poems/

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


Apr 21-23 
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Apr 28-30
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May 7-9

Adv. CW Writing Prompts

In Russia, a former schoolteacher was accused of stabbing a friend during a discussion of whether poetry or prose was the most important literary form.

Man arrested allegedly trying to sell jars of stolen brains at Dairy Queen.

Border collie was re-homed after chewing through the wheel arch of her owner's Asten Marten.

Two performance artist are living on hamster wheel for ten days.

A man arrested in Philadelphia for exposing his genitalia while fondling Swiss cheese.

Australian performance artist knits from wool inserted in her vagina.

ADV. CW Here is your reading

From the Pushcart Prize anthology (for my creative writing class,) please read the following for next week's discussions.

The Piece Need Not be Built by Andrew Zolot  (Thom G.)  p. 302
Self-Port. with Exit Words by Ocean Vuong (Jared S.) p. 257
Ways to Begin  by Rachel Rose (Cooper S.) p. 41

Contemporary Lit.

If you are interested in the differences between Modernism and Post Modernism.

Updated Rules (Contemporary Lit.)

REVISION to Modernist Assignment

1. Instead of 500 words, you can now write 25 lines or more of poetry. You can define a line however you wish (thin lines like cummings, long lines like Stevens, etc.)

2. Your process note explaining how you did and did not adhere to the ideas or forms (or formlessness) of the Modernists can now be 200 words minimum.

The assignment is due on Monday. 02/03/14

Contemporary Literature Classes Syllabus Edits

WEEKEND:  (forgive the wonky formatting, for now, I want you to have a jump on the homework. More soon)
Reading Homework for Monday and Wednesday discussion (not to be on the quiz Monday).
Read this Intro   as well as the bio and listed poems for the following poets:
Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro  The River Merchant's Wife
T.S. Eliot Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Wallace Stevens Sunday Morning,  The Emperor of Ice Cream, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird The Snowman
and Mina Loy  Lost Lunar Baedeker and Moreover, the Moon

 Homework:

Your first assignment will involve an imitation piece or series from the works we’ve read. (500 word minimum). It can be written  in a variety of forms (essay,poetry, formal, etc.) as long as it meets the word count. One way to tackle this might be to write a poem by the light of one of these pieces and then to write a short letter or essay piece that describes your process: how you worked from the imitation and how you worked away from or against it.

Feb 17-19
M 2nd Quiz on Frost
Discussion Introduction to Modernism, Sunday Morning

W Wallace Stevens discussion. 9:30 class is being observed this day so show-off those gorgeous brains of yours, pretty please?
(12:30 should show-off just as a reward to me for going through the evaluation process.

Feb 24-26
M Modernism discussion continued
Homework:  Next readings TBA

W  Modernist discussion concluded
Turn in your Modernist imitation assignment
Mar 3-5  (Midterm)
M Modernism Quiz
Homework: Readings TBA
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Mar 10-12
M Formal Poem Discussion Begins

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Mar 17-19
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SPRING BREAK!
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