Poem writing assignment for this week:
Continue/finish the 20 poetry projects assignment; the directions are on EMU Online (20 poetry projects). Work on writing a line or multiple lines for each question/assignment in the list of 20. When you have finished the list, decide what to do with the material you have generated: do you want to make one poem out of it or multiple poems? You may reorganize, edit, change, add material to your list and turn this into poem(s) in whatever way you like.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
General Announcements
Please make sure your blog is listed to the right and that it is working; and let me know if you are having any troubles.
Also follow the syllabus for readings and assignments.
You should be working on two sets of poems so far:
3 poems from the 20 word list
2-3 sonnets in whatever style you like (you can write in the style and structure of Shakespeare or be as innovative (or more innovative) than Ted Berrigan.
We will continue with some more poem writing this week.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Creative Writing Bathhouse Events This Semester
Writers Tisa Bryant (author of Unexplained Presence) and Douglas Kearney (author of The Black Automaton)
will be visiting us for two events (see below for details and book
plugs). On Tuesday (11/5), our guests will read from their creative
work, and this will be followed on Wednesday (11/6) with each writer
presenting a talk/presentation on some aspect of their creative
practice.
Unexplained Presence
Tisa Bryant.
Fiction.
Essays. African-American Studies. By remixing stories from novels and
films to zoom in on the black presences within them, Tisa Bryant's
UNEXPLAINED PRESENCE ruminates on the sublime power of history to shape
culture in the subconscious of both the artist and the reader/viewer.
Moving from interrogations of Francois Ozon's "8 Femmes" and Virginia
Woolf's "Orlando" to the machinations of the "Regency House Party"
reality TV show, UNEXPLAINED PRESENCE weaves threads of myth, fact and
fiction into previously unexplored narratives lurking in our collective
imagination. "This is truly a bold book, one that combines scenes of
rich technicolor with the light of truth, at once invoking and
dissolving cultural myths and faux histories" -Brenda Coultas.
The Black Automaton
Douglas Kearney
Poetry.
African American Studies. Winner of the National Poetry Series,
selected by Catherine Wagner. From ambivalent animals thriving after
Katrina to party chants echoing in a burning city, THE BLACK AUTOMATON
troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life. In this collection bodies at
risk seek renewal through violence and fertility, history and myth,
flesh and radios. "First,
you have to see Douglas Kearney's visual poems, which cheekily diagram
cultural memes as if they were parts of speech (as they are). THE BLACK
AUTOMATON has its share of sharp, tender lyrics, too...these exploit the
political possibilities of puns and the way meanings hinge on inexact
resemblance. Kearney's poems tweak and skewer pop culture and literary
sources from Paul Laurence Dunbar to T. S. Eliot to traditional ballads
and blues...Kearney's work turns poetic and cultural conventions
disquietingly inside out."—Catherine Wagner
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Welcome to Creative Writing
Follow this blog for class announcements, to see others' blogs, and just for fun!
Also, remember to set up your own blog and make sure you can find the documents posted on EMU Online (emuonline.edu).
Follow the syllabus for Wednesday and come prepared to discuss the readings.
Also, remember to set up your own blog and make sure you can find the documents posted on EMU Online (emuonline.edu).
Follow the syllabus for Wednesday and come prepared to discuss the readings.
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