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English 205 Introduction to Creative Writing Fall 2012

Poetry & Workshop CalendarN.B. Workshop poems are due emailed to me before the previous days class, i.e. if your poem is being workshopped on a

Friday, send me your poem before class on Wednesday; or for a Monday workshop, before the previous Fridays class.

Week 1: Introduction & ImageryM Aug. 20 Discuss Syllabus Poetry Introduction POEMS: All poems for today only will be read

in-class.PEOMS: Nikki Finney, Resurrection of the Errand Girl Craig Martin Raines A MartianWrites Home

W Aug. 22 READINGS: Richard Hugo Writing Off the Subject (coursepack)POEMS: Laura Jensen The Red Dog, Terrance Hayes Lightheads Guide to theGalaxy, Charles Simic The Fork

F Aug. 24 READINGS: Gregory Orr Four Temperaments and the Forms of Poetry Mining Images:James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffys Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota,Matthew Zapruder The Prelude

Week 2: Senses, Metaphor, & SimileM Aug. 27 DUE: Poem #1 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

READINGS: Oliver Sound and More Devices of Sound (pg.19-34)POEMS: Verse for the Senses: Sound: Kevin Young Expecting, Sylvia Plath Daddy, GerardManley Hopkins The Windhover, Jean Nordaus He is Running

W Aug. 29 POEMS: Sight: Elizabeth Bishop The Fish (pg. 95-97 in Oliver) Taste, Smell: Li-Young

Lee Eating Together and Eating Alone, Jack Gilbert Going Wrong Feel: Marie PonsotSeparate, In the Swim, Jorie Graham Tennessee June

F Aug. 31 READINGS: How Poet Natasha Trethewey Wrote Her Fathers Elegy(link), MaryOliver Imitation (pg. 13-18)POEMS: Simile and Metaphor: Kenneth Koch To You, Gerald Stern I RememberGalileo, Laura Jensen Bad Boats

Week 3: Metaphor & Simile (continued), VoiceM Sept. 3 NO CLASSLABOR DAY

W Sept. 5 DUE: Poem #2 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

POEMS: Image/Abstraction: Stanley Kunitz Day of Foreboding, Richard SikenScheherezade, Dorianne Laux Facts About the Moon

F Sept. 7 READINGS: Mary Oliver Diction, Tone, Voice (pg. 76 91)POEMS: Voices of delight and desire: e.e. cummings since feeling is first, James Tate andSame Tits, Jack Gilbert Portrait Number Five: Against a New York Summer

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Week 4: Line, Stanza, Form & SonnetsM Sept. 10 DUE: Poem #3 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

READINGS: The Line and Some Given Forms (pg. 35 66)POEMS: couplets: Kevin Young Ode to the Midwest, Maurice Manning A Blasphemy

tercets: Mark Strand Eating Poetry, David Wagoner For a Student Sleeping in a PoetryWorkshop quatrains: Marianne Boruch In the hospital parking lot, Tony HoaglandHistory of Desire

W Sept. 12 READINGS: On the SonnetPOEMS: Sonnet:John Donne Death, Be Not Proud, Pablo Neruda Sonnet XVII, HenriCole Oil & SteelWorkshop 1_______________ 2____________________

F Sept. 14 READINGS: On the SestinaPOEMS: Sestina: Miller Williams Shrinking Lonesome Sestina, John Ashberry FarmImplements and Rutabegas in a Landscape, Elizabeth Bishop SestinaWorkshop 3___________________ 4__________________

Week 5: Villanelles, Sestinas, & Prose PoemsM Sept. 17 DUE: Poem #4 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

READINGS: On the VillanellePOEMS: Villanelle: Elizabeth Bishop One Art, Sylvia Plath Mad Girls Love Song,Theodore Roethke The WakingWorkshop 5________________ 6_____________________

W Sept. 19 READINGS: On Prose Poems POEMS: Prose: Carolyn Forche The Colonel, TerranceHayes Arbor for Butch, Nikky Finney Cattails

Workshop 7______________ 8_____________________

F Sept. 21 READINGS: Greek Myths (I will send you the links)POEMS: Jack Gilbert Falling and Flying, Eavan Boland The Pomegranate, MargaretAtwood Orpheus (1) and (2)Workshop 9_________________ 10__________________

Week 6: PersonaeM Sept. 24 DUE: Poem #5 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

DUE: Small Group Poem (emailed to group & me by no later than noon)READINGS: Academy of American Poets Poetic Technique: Dramatic MonologuePOEMS: Personae: Anne Sexton Her Kind, John Berryman Dream Song 1 and Dream

Song 14, Adrienne Rich Phantasia for Elvira ShatayevWorkshop 11___________________ 12__________________

W Sept. 26 POEMS: Personae: Natasha Trethewey Bellocqs Ophelia and Portrait #2, NikkyFinney Red VelvetWorkshop 13_______________ 14__________________

F Sept. 28 Small Group WorkshopsWorkshop 15________________ 16_________________

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Week 7: On RevisionM Oct. 1 DUE: Poem #6 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

DUE: Small Group Poem (emailed to group & me by no later than noon)POEMS: Class-selected readings

Workshop 17_______________ 18______________ 19______________

W Oct. 3 READINGS: Mary Oliver Revisions (pg. 109 111)POEM: Revision of Elizabeth Bishops One ArtClass-selected Readings

F Oct. 5 Class-selected ReadingsSmall Group Workshops

Week 8: Revision ConferencesM Oct. 8 NO CLASSOctober Break

W Oct. 10 NO CLASS

Individual Conferences

F Oct. 12 NO CLASSIndividual Conferences

POETRY PORTFOLIO DUE (3 revised poems, Poetry cover letter, & course reflection letter)Emailed to me in a single document by midnight on Sunday, October 14