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C R E A T I V E   W R I T I N G:  P O E T R Y

C A L E N D A R

S P R I N G    2 0 0 7

 
TR 2:00 - 3:20 PM / MRC 414 / Bill Stobb, Instructor

 


 
 
 

 

 

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One

1/16

  • Introductions / syllabus / some readings from bear parade

  • Book exchange: Mayche gets Sharon Olds, Kim gets Anthony Robinson, Reuben gets Tao Lin, Katrina gets Christian Wiman

  • write poems

1/18 

  • Readings: discuss the book exchange books so far

  • workshop a poem

Two

1/23

  • Readings: from Origins - poems and essays on poetry: Kim Addonizio, "The Philosopher's Club," Tony Hoagland, "One Season," Gerald Stern, "The Power of Maples," Mary Oliver, "The Swan," and Reginald Gibbons, "Quiet."

  • Exchange books

  •  Workshop poems

1/25

  • Readings: Tom Montag: "Who is Poetry For?"

  • Workshop poems 

Three

1/30

  • First response due: What will my  next poem be about?  Either an essay or a poem incorporating ideas or actual words from any of our readings thus far.

  • Book exchange.  Rotate.

  • Mary Oliver, "Wild Geese."  

  • Charles Wright, "Stone Canyon Nocturne"

  • A. R. Ammons "The City Limits"

  • The A's in Handbook of Poetic Forms.  Especially "Abstract Poem," "Acrostic," and "Apostrophe."

  • Workshop poems

2/1

  • Hand out six to ten poems for workshopping.

  • Readings / workshop poems

Four

2/6

  • Readings / workshop poems

2/8

  • Workshop first mini-book

Five

2/13

  • Pantoum, Ghazal, Villanelle, Sonnet

  • Reading: Sarah Fox Because Why--don't feel obligated to read the whole collection, there's no exam, but familiarize yourself with her style, and find some poems you like.  One favorite of mine, so far, is "The Kiss," on page 24.

2/15 

  • Sarah Fox in class

  • 7:00 PM--required attendance at Sarah Fox reading at the Pump House.

Six

2/20

  • Kinds of poems, part 1.

2/22 

 

Seven

2/27

 

3/1

  • Hand-out including Alison Hawthorne Deming, Robert Wrigley, Matthew Rohrer

SPRING BREAK

Eight

3/13

 

3/15

  • Tony Hoagland, "Fear of Narrative and the Skittery Poem of Our Moment"

Nine

3/20

3/22

  • Compare and contrast two of the three poets in the last packet (Deming, Wrigley, Rohrer) in terms of their attitude toward continuity or skitterishness

  • Workshop 

  • Pump House Reading: Bruce Taylor, 7:00 PM

Ten

3/27

  • Jonathan Holden, "The Abstract Image"

  • Hand out copies of poems for second collection

 

3/29

  • Workshop poems for second collection

Eleven

4/3

  • Second collection due

  • Assign critical essay

4/5: EASTER BREAK 

Twelve

4/10

4/12 

  • Readings / workshops 

Thirteen

4/17

  • No class: instructor away

4/19 

  • Workshop critical essay: come to class with the following completed: 1) a fairly solid idea of what your categories will be, 2) some poetry passages and citations from the critical readings that you've chosen to define your categories, 3) an idea of how your own work relates to these categories

Fourteen

4/24

  • work day on critical essay: meet in library

4/26

  • Presentation workshop: Mayche and Reuben.  For the presentation workshop: you will give a 15 minute presentation consisting of readings of poems selected from your semester's work to represent qualities of poetry that you've worked on, things you've realized about writing poems, good things you've done, things that haven't worked, joys and frustrations you've felt.  After the presentation, we'll discuss.

Fifteen

5/1

  • Presentation workshop: Kim and Katrina.  For the presentation workshop: you will give a 15 minute presentation consisting of readings of poems selected from your semester's work to represent qualities of poetry that you've worked on, things you've realized about writing poems, good things you've done, things that haven't worked, joys and frustrations you've felt.  After the presentation, we'll discuss.

  • critical essay due

5/3

  • Workshop Artist Statements--see sample

  • Artist statement instructions: in 300 words or less, articulate the goals and values (aesthetic, personal, cultural, etc.) of your work as a poet.

  • Portfolio instructions:  please include, in your portfolio, both your collections of poems, revisions you've made to poems (in separate documents--you don't have to revise your collections of poems), new poems drafted since the second collection was due, and your artist statement.  Due by 9:40 AM on Wednesday, May 9.  

Final Exam Period

 

 

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