Next round of workshops

AGENDA:

For the next round of workshops, those of you who have not had a poem workshopped  need to submit one today.

Cora Brooks Exercises: 
This is not
Dream of a Thing

Sept. portfolio--please submit all assignments for your Sept. portfolio grade

Workshop

AGENDA:

Workshop new poems.

Discuss Ch. 1 Poetry Home Repair Manual
Work on revising poems, contests, etc.

Advanced Poetry Workshop

AGENDA:

Workshop additional poems.

Distribute textbooks.  Read Ch. 1 for Tuesday "Talking to Oneself"

Poetry Workshop

AGENDA:

Go to:
http://www.mshogue.com/poetry/wkshp.html

W.S. Merwin "The Nails"/ Workshop Wednesday

AGENDA:

Wednesday will be our first Poetry Workshop.  Please pick one of your poems to workshop.  I will make copies of them Wednesday morning for the class to look over. Also start thinking about Bennington contest and if you want to attend the BOA Birthday Bash this Sunday.

So far you should have 3 or 4 poems that you can revise and prepare for Wednesday:

• 50 Question poem
• Golden Shovel poem
• Ashbery poem
• and maybe today's assignment on W. S. Merwin 

1. Go to:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/52501

Listen to the poem:
https://audioboom.com/boos/147537-the-nails-w-s-merwin

2. Go over Teaching Tips

3. Read discussion questions. Post responses to discussion questions as a comment.

4. Explore all the learning lab content.especially the essay about the poem and other resources:
https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/merwin/
http://www.merwinconservancy.org/2013/01/poem-of-the-week-the-nails/
https://moonlightowl.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/the-nails/

5. WRITE: Look over Writing Ideas and create a poem


6. If you have not finished the Golden Shovel poem or the John Ashbery poem, work on these, too.

BOA Birthday Bash

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boa-benefit-birthday-bash-tickets-26328531346

Bennington Young Writers Contest

http://www.bennington.edu/events/young-writers-awards

John Ashbery--Paradoxes and Oxymorons

AGENDA:

EQ: What are paradoxes and oxymorons?

1. Go to:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/50986

View video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYKlbwaxOmE

2. Go over Teaching Tips

3. Post responses to discussion question

4. Explore all the learning lab content.especially the essay about the poem:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/50986#guide

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/ashbery/paradox.htm

5. WRITE: Look over Writing Ideas and create a poem

6. If you have not finished the Golden Shovel poem, work on that, too.

John Ashberry--Paradoxes and Oxymorons

AGENDA:

EQ: What are paradoxes and oxymorons?

1. Go to:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/50986

View video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=islbtl1NkPM

2. Go over Teaching Tips

3. Post responses to discussion question

4. Explore all the learning lab content.especially the essay about the poem:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/50986#guide

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/ashbery/paradox.htm

5. WRITE: Look over Writing Ideas and create a poem

6. If you have not finished the Golden Shovel poem, work on that, too.

Daily Poet:

September 15
Write a poem that changes subjects 3 times.  You may use a stanza break to indicate a leap, or the words "But I digress." Whether or not you return to your original subject is up to you, but try not to tie up loose ends.  Experiment with how disparate and unrelated each subject is from the other, but sneak in a  less unifying theme, such as the color red.

50 questions Exercise/ goldenshovel

AGENDA:
EQ: What are the four poetic temperaments according to the Gregory Orr essay?
What do you think about the ideas in his essay?  Do you agree or disagree? Does his essay provide a "literary theory" about thinking about poetry?    What is your poetic temperament?  Can you merge the other temperaments?

1. Review and discuss Gregory Orr's essay: Look at the poems referred to in the assignment.

2. Share out 50 questions poems.  What did you think of creating these?  Did you feel your imagination freeing?

3. Introduce the "Golden Shovel Poem" and Terrance Hayes

4. Write a Golden Shovel poem:

Resources: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems?page=4

Sign out text books

HOMEWORK: Create another 50 questions or "Golden Shovel poem" for Thursday that we can workshop
on Thursday

Abiodune Oyewole

Something Beautiful:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXnQdXOS7UY

Welcome Back!

AGENDA:

BUSINESS:
1. Review Course Criteria
2. Election of Creative Writing Officers
3. Field Trip Medical Form


CRITICAL READING:
4. Read and discuss Letter 1 of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet
5. Read and discuss Greg Orr's essay

ACTIVITY:
6. 50 Questions Exercise and write poem (for homework)