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English 205Spring 2012Introduction to Creative Writing

Poetry & Workshop Calendar

N.B. Workshop poems are due emailed to me before the previous daysclass, i.e. if your poem is being workshopped on a Friday, send me yourpoem before class on Wednesday; or for a Monday workshop, before theprevious Fridays class.

POETRY UNIT

Week 1: Introduction, Imagery, & SoundM Mar. 5 Discuss Syllabus

Poetry Introduction

POEMS: All poems for today only will be read in-class.Selections from Mr. W. Shakespeare, Craig Martin RainesA Martian Writes Home, Charles Simic The ForkIN-CLASS EXERCISE: If E.T. were a Purdue student. . .

W Mar. 7 READINGS: Reread from your fiction coursepack Richard

Hugo Writing Off the SubjectPOEMS: James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at WilliamDuffys Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota Mining Images:Matthew Zapruder The Prelude, Laura Jensen BadBoats and The Red Dog

IN-CLASS EXERCISE: Imagery Exercise

F Mar. 9 READINGS: Gregory Orr Four Temperaments and theForms of Poetry, Mary Oliver Sound and More Devicesof Sound (pg.19-34)POEMS: Sound: Kevin Young Expecting, Sylvia PlathDaddy, Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover, JeanNordaus He is Running

Week 2: SPRING BREAKMar. 12-16NO CLASS

Week 3: Senses, Metaphor, & SimileM Mar. 19 DUE: Poem #1 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

POEMS: Verse for the Senses: Elizabeth Bishop The Fish(pg. 95-97 in Oliver), Li-Young Lee Eating Together andEating Alone, Feel, Smell: Marie Ponsot Separate, In theSwim, William Carlos Williams Smell

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W Mar.21 POEMS: Like Life Simile and Metaphor: Kenneth Koch ToYou, Gerald Stern I Remember Galileo

F Mar.23 READINGS: Natalie Angier Abstract Thoughts? The BodyTakes Them Literally

POEMS: Image/Abstraction: Stanley Kunitz Day ofForeboding, Richard Siken Scheherezade

Week 4: Voice, Stanza, & PersonaM Mar. 26 DUE:Poem #2 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

READINGS: Mary Oliver Imitation (pg. 13-18); The Lineand Some Given Forms (pg. 35 66)POEMS: couplets: Kevin Young Ode to the Midwest,

Maurice Manning A Blasphemy tercets: Mark StrandEating Poetry, David Wagoner For a Student Sleeping ina Poetry Workshop quatrains: Marianne Boruch In thehospital parking lot and He was touched or he touchedor

W Mar.28 READINGS: Mary Oliver Diction, Tone, Voice (pg. 76 91)POEMS: Voices of delight and desire: e.e. cummings sincefeeling is first, Tony Hoagland History of Desire, JamesTate and Same Tits, Jack Gilbert Portrait Number Five:Against a New York Summer

F Mar.30 READINGS: Academy of American Poets Poetic Technique:Dramatic MonologuePOEMS: Personae: Anne Sexton Her Kind, John BerrymanDream Song 1 and Dream Song 14, Adrienne RichPhantasia for Elvira Shatayev

Week 5: Line, Stanza, FormM Apr. 2 DUE: Poem #3 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

READINGS: On the Sonnet

POEMS: Sonnet:John Donne Death, Be Not Proud, PabloNeruda Sonnet XVII, Henri Cole Oil & SteelWorkshop 1_____Dong__________ 2______Eumin_______

W Apr. 4 READINGS: On the VillanellePOEMS: Villanelle: Elizabeth Bishop One Art, Sylvia PlathMad Girls Love Song, Theodore Roethke The WakingWorkshop 3____Morgan________ 4_______Valerie______

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F Apr.6 READINGS: On the SestinaPOEMS: Sestina: Miller Williams Shrinking LonesomeSestina, John Ashberry Farm Implements and Rutabegasin a Landscape

Workshop 5______Ellie_______ 6______Jennifer________

Week 6: Line, Stanza, FormM Apr. 9 NO CLASSMICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Q&A

DUE: Poem #4 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

W Apr.11 READINGS: Greek Myths (I will send you the links)POEMS: Jack Gilbert Falling and Flying, Eavan BolandThe Pomegranate, Margaret Atwood Orpheus (1) and(2)Workshop 7____Drew______ 8_____Michelle______

Apr. 13 POEMS: Prose: Carolyn Forche The Colonel, HarryetteMullen Black Nikes, Nicole Cooley Breach Concrete:May Swenson Bleeding and Women, Emmet WilliamsLike Attracts Like, Mary Leader They VibrateWorkshop 9______Joshua Y.____ 10______Emily_______

Week 7: Form & RevisionM Apr.16 DUE: Poem #5 (emailed to me by no later than noon)

DUE: Small Group Poem (emailed to group & me by nolater than noon)

Concrete: May Swenson Bleeding and Women, EmmetWilliams Like Attracts Like, Mary Leader They VibrateWorkshop 11____Brenda________ 12____Kaley________

W Apr.18 POEMS: *Classs choice of neglected past poems*Workshop 13_____Todd________ 14____Calynn_______

F Apr.20 DUE: Small Group Workshop Critiques(emailed to me in a single document or in the bodyof an email message by no later than noon)

Small Group Workshops

Week 8: On RevisionM Apr. 23 POEMS: *Classs choice of neglected past poems*

Workshop 15___Josh S.________ 16______Pierce______

W Apr. 25 READINGS: Mary Oliver Revisions (pg. 109 111),Richard Hugo Nuts and Bolts - Coursepack

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Workshop 17_____Ross____ 18______Shannon____19___Josh N.__

F Apr. 27 NO CLASSIndividual Conferences

POETRY PORTFOLIO DUE (3 revised poems, Poetry cover letter, &course reflection letter) Emailed to me by 5 p.m. Sunday, 4/29