Poetry Writing Jackie Bartley
English 155 Art Department, ext. 7122
Spring 2002 Home phone: 392-6556
email: bartley@hope.edu
TEXT: Writing Poetry by Barbara Drake
You'll also need one small pocket notebook for recording six images/day
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENTS:
· One draft of a poem with copies for each class member (me included) per class. Each class we will work with a different approach to creating a poem.
· One-page response to some artful aspect of one VWS reading.
· One-page response exploring connections between poetry and another art event.
· One-page description of how the writing/discussion group functioned for you.
HOW TO GET THE MOST FROM THE CLASS:
· Read and work with chapters assigned (see assignment page).
· Attempt each approach.
· Take part in responding to others' works (see ways of responding sheet).
· Attend Visiting Writers Series (see below).
· Attend one campus artistic event outside class.
· Visit a poem site at least once a week. Choose from three below (write-up to be included in small group summaries).
· Meet in your writing group at least twice.
· Have a good time.
GRADE:
Class Attendance (10 pts./class) 140
Please let me know (if you can) if you are going to be absent.
Poem for discussion as required (10 pts. each) 110
Attendance and response to VWS reading 15
Attendance and response to other artistic event 15
Small group attendance and summaries (10 each) 20
Total 300
VISITING WRITERS SERIES: readings are at 7:00 PM at the Knickerbocker
Monday, M
POETRY SITES:
Poetry Daily (current poetry, journal info)— http://www.poems.com/
Your Daily Poetry Break (poems that have stood the test of time)—
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7086/pod.htm
Poetry Links Library (contemporary, Japanese forms, e-zines, poetry bookstores)—
http://www.sonic.net/layne/poetrylnk.html
ASSIGNMENTS:
All assignments (except Influence Poems) are based on Barbara Drake's suggestions in Writing Poetry.
March 4 M Introduction
March 6 W Chapter 2 Memory
March 11 M Chapter 3 Lists & Catalogs
March 13 W Chapter10 Persona
March 25 M Chapter 9 Surreal
March 27 W Chapter 8 Found
April 1 M Chapter 5 Address; small group summaries due
April 3 W Chapter 4 Observation-Reflection (Use notebook lists)
April 8 M Chapter 12 Personal History and Mythology
April 10 W Chapter 6 Traditional Forms
April 15 M Chapter 7 Configuration and Revision (read chapter, but no
new poem due—bring previous poems, notebook lists to class)
April 17 W Revisions due Second small group summaries due
April 22 M Influence poems
April 24 W
Anthologies due
Related Exercises from The Practice of Poetry
Pages
Memory: 3, 8, 17, 33, 35, 40, 48, 80, 87, 89, 91, 99, 101, 104, 145, 164, 191, 231
Surrealism: 8, 11, 27, 42, 51, 104, 109, 115, 119, 126, 141, 158, 173
Poems of Address: 3, 8, 11, 13, 33, 35, 40, 56, 70, 104, 139, 158, 169, 231
Found Poetry: 35, 37, 44, 73, 111, 116, 126, 131, 181, 184, 191
Collage: 5, 8, 11, 13, 17, 33, 35, 37, 44, 46, 54, 96, 104, 139, 145, 150, 177
Persona: 27, 48, 51, 63, 66, 68, 73, 75, 78, 101, 143, 147, 231
Inherited Forms: 17, 33, 44, 46, 56, 73, 104, 109, 139, 143, 145, 147, 150, 164, 169, 173, 175, 198, 200, 205, 239
Re-Vision: 8, 29, 48, 68, 78, 104, 109, 147, 148, 150, 158, 160, 173, 177, 179, 187, 189, 193, 210, 225, 227, 228, 231, 236, 239, 243, 245, 249, 251, 257
Avant-Garde 27, 35, 94, 96, 109, 111, 115, 116, 123, 125, 126, 131, 236
Lists and Catalogs: 27, 33, 35, 37, 44, 54, 56, 104, 129, 139, 141, 143, 177, 205
Observation and Image: 3, 13, 33, 35, 37, 46, 54, 97, 99, 141, 145
Personal History / Personal Myth: 8, 13, 17, 27, 33, 46, 48, 56, 80, 87, 89, 91, 99, 101, 104, 164, 231
Writer's Block: 217, 221