Powerful Schools (Writing Classes for Teachers) Workshop,

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Introductions: Name, Where you’re from, Level of poetry skill & why you took the class.

1^st Sound: Allen Ginsberg on 1st Thought Best Thought: (sound)

1^st Poem: Brenda Hillman: Reportorial Poetry, Trance & Activism and In An Armed Services Hearing.

1^st Exercise: Exquisite Corpse (Why/Because, If/Then)

2^nd Exercise: Duo Corpse: (handout)

2^nd Sound: McClure on Projective Verse. 

3^rd Exercise: I Remember (handout)

4^th Exercise: Sei Shonagon List Exercise (Handout)

2^nd Poem: Nathaniel Mackey: On Antiphon Island.

5^th Exercise: Tribe: (handout)

3^rd Sound: Eileen Myles (3 cuts from interview.)

6^th Exercise: Interview (from Anne Waldman) 

7^th Exercise: American Sentences (Handout)