To Do: Finish your reading response from last week. Finish Assignment #6 and submit to Blackboard if you haven’t. Read the new posting Revision Tips under Assignments>Reading Responses on the [ … ]
Revision Tips
For your final portfolio, you must include one major revision of one of your workshop pieces (essay, short story, or poem). A major revision is more than just editing for [ … ]
Agenda: Week 15
To Do: Finish your reading response from last week. Finish your workshop comments for your group’s poems if you haven’t. Read the “Stop Making Sense: Dreams and Experiments” chapter in [ … ]
Reading Response 14: Week of 4/19
We’ve done a bit of a crash course in poetic craft and technique these past few weeks, but, of course, simply following directions doesn’t usually result in amazing poems, the [ … ]
Agenda: Week 14
To Do: Finish your reading response from last week. Submit your Workshop Poem assignment ASAP if you haven’t yet (due 4/12). Read the “Voice and Style” chapter in The Poet’s [ … ]
Reading Response 13: Week of 4/12
Poetic voice is a complex performance. You may notice when I comment on your poems that I am calling the voice of your poem “the speaker’ instead of “you.’ It [ … ]
Agenda: Week 13
To Do: Finish your reading response from last week. Read the “Images” and “Figurative Language” chapters in The Poet’s Companion. Read Poetry Packet #3 (Blackboard). Read the new posting (11/11) [ … ]
Reading Response 12: Week of 4/5
If sound is the heartbeat of the poem, perhaps imagery is the musculature of the poem. In The Poet’s Companion, Laux and Addonizio characterize images as “the rendering of your [ … ]
Agenda: Week 12
To Do: Finish your reading response from last week. Finish your Personal Universe worksheet (Assignment #4) and submit it. Read “Repetition, Rhythm, and Blues” in The Poet’s Companion. Read Poetry [ … ]
Reading Response 11: Week of 3/29
Repetition–of sounds, words, syntax, images–is often the emotional powerhouse of a poem. That is, it is the force that gives the poem a sense of emotional movement. As Laux and [ … ]