Keeping Your Hand (Foot, Spleen) In It Poetry Workshop

Thursday, July 30, 2009: Week Four

• Announcements: August Postcard Fest, SPLAB! re-opening soon, Students Reading.

• Thoughts, Questions, Comments about last week or the Assignment. Who wants to read their poems?

§         Read Charles Olson Sun (from Maximus Poems).

§         1^st Exercise: Cover Poem: (handout) (Add Kozer and Homophonic Options.)

§         2^nd Exercise: Pantoum (Handbook of Poetic Forms)

§         McClure sound on Projective Verse.

§         3^rd Exercise: Epistle (Handbook of Poetic Forms)

• 4^th Exercise: Postcard Exercise: (handout)

• 5^th exercise: Class Evaluations. (Handout)

• Homework Assignment: (The Artist’s Way, Carol translates Duino Elegies and compares her finished translation with Robert Hunter’s translation AFTER she finishes; Shankar writes 99 Blues Choruses; everyone signs up to do postcards & other ways of keeping your hand in it, such as Ed Sanders (read) and Joanne Kyger’s book on Blavatsky)

• Also, begin to think about that project that will define you as a poet. If you still want a private session, I am available through the end of August. Sundays are good, after Noon. Please email or call 206.422.5002.

• Discussion? (One week class in the Fall Investigative Poetry. A proposed 6 week class The Personal Mythology of Organic Poetry) proposed for Winter '10.