English 205

Introduction to Creative Writing

Fall 2012

Poetry & Workshop Calendar N.B. Workshop poems are due emailed to me before the previous days class, i.e. if your poem is being workshopped on a Friday, send me your poem before class on Wednesday; or for a Monday workshop, before the previous Fridays class. Week 1: Introduction & Imagery M Aug. 20 Discuss Syllabus Poetry Introduction POEMS: All poems for today only will be read in-class. PEOMS: Nikki Finney, Resurrection of the Errand Girl Craig Martin Raines A Martian Writes Home W Aug. 22 READINGS: Richard Hugo Writing Off the Subject (coursepack) POEMS: Laura Jensen The Red Dog, Terrance Hayes Lightheads Guide to the Galaxy, Charles Simic The Fork READINGS: Gregory Orr Four Temperaments and the Forms of Poetry Mining Images: James Wright, Lying in a Hammock at William Duffys Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota, Matthew Zapruder The Prelude

F Aug. 24

Week 2: Senses, Metaphor, & Simile M Aug. 27 DUE: Poem #1 (emailed to me by no later than noon) READINGS: Oliver Sound and More Devices of Sound (pg.19-34) POEMS: Verse for the Senses: Sound: Kevin Young Expecting, Sylvia Plath Daddy, Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover, Jean Nordaus He is Running W Aug. 29 POEMS: Sight: Elizabeth Bishop The Fish (pg. 95-97 in Oliver) Taste, Smell: Li-Young Lee Eating Together and Eating Alone, Jack Gilbert Going Wrong Feel: Marie Ponsot Separate, In the Swim, Jorie Graham Tennessee June READINGS: How Poet Natasha Trethewey Wrote Her Fathers Elegy(link), Mary Oliver Imitation (pg. 13-18) POEMS: Simile and Metaphor: Kenneth Koch To You, Gerald Stern I Remember Galileo, Laura Jensen Bad Boats

F Aug. 31

Week 3: Metaphor & Simile (continued), Voice M Sept. 3 NO CLASSLABOR DAY W Sept. 5 DUE: Poem #2 (emailed to me by no later than noon) POEMS: Image/Abstraction: Stanley Kunitz Day of Foreboding, Richard Siken Scheherezade, Dorianne Laux Facts About the Moon READINGS: Mary Oliver Diction, Tone, Voice (pg. 76 91) POEMS: Voices of delight and desire: e.e. cummings since feeling is first, James Tate and Same Tits, Jack Gilbert Portrait Number Five: Against a New York Summer

F Sept. 7

Week 4: Line, Stanza, Form & Sonnets M Sept. 10 DUE: Poem #3 (emailed to me by no later than noon) READINGS: The Line and Some Given Forms (pg. 35 66) POEMS: couplets: Kevin Young Ode to the Midwest, Maurice Manning A Blasphemy tercets: Mark Strand Eating Poetry, David Wagoner For a Student Sleeping in a Poetry Workshop quatrains: Marianne Boruch In the hospital parking lot, Tony Hoagland History of Desire W Sept. 12 READINGS: On the Sonnet POEMS: Sonnet: John Donne Death, Be Not Proud, Pablo Neruda Sonnet XVII, Henri Cole Oil & Steel Workshop 1_______________ 2____________________ READINGS: On the Sestina POEMS: Sestina: Miller Williams Shrinking Lonesome Sestina, John Ashberry Farm Implements and Rutabegas in a Landscape, Elizabeth Bishop Sestina Workshop 3___________________ 4__________________

F Sept. 14

Week 5: Villanelles, Sestinas, & Prose Poems M Sept. 17 DUE: Poem #4 (emailed to me by no later than noon) READINGS: On the Villanelle POEMS: Villanelle: Elizabeth Bishop One Art, Sylvia Plath Mad Girls Love Song, Theodore Roethke The Waking Workshop 5________________ 6_____________________ W Sept. 19 READINGS: On Prose Poems POEMS: Prose: Carolyn Forche The Colonel, Terrance Hayes Arbor for Butch, Nikky Finney Cattails Workshop 7______________ 8_____________________ READINGS: Greek Myths (I will send you the links) POEMS: Jack Gilbert Falling and Flying, Eavan Boland The Pomegranate, Margaret Atwood Orpheus (1) and (2) Workshop 9_________________ 10__________________ DUE: Poem #5 (emailed to me by no later than noon) DUE: Small Group Poem (emailed to group & me by no later than noon) READINGS: Academy of American Poets Poetic Technique: Dramatic Monologue POEMS: Personae: Anne Sexton Her Kind, John Berryman Dream Song 1 and Dream Song 14, Adrienne Rich Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev Workshop 11___________________ 12__________________ POEMS: Personae: Natasha Trethewey Bellocqs Ophelia and Portrait #2, Nikky Finney Red Velvet Workshop 13_______________ 14__________________ Small Group Workshops Workshop 15________________ 16_________________

F Sept. 21

Week 6: Personae M Sept. 24

W Sept. 26

F Sept. 28

Week 7: On Revision M Oct. 1 DUE: Poem #6 (emailed to me by no later than noon) DUE: Small Group Poem (emailed to group & me by no later than noon) POEMS: Class-selected readings Workshop 17_______________ 18______________ 19______________ W Oct. 3 READINGS: Mary Oliver Revisions (pg. 109 111) POEM: Revision of Elizabeth Bishops One Art Class-selected Readings

F Oct. 5

Class-selected Readings Small Group Workshops

Week 8: Revision Conferences M Oct. 8 NO CLASSOctober Break W Oct. 10 F Oct. 12 NO CLASSIndividual Conferences NO CLASSIndividual Conferences

POETRY PORTFOLIO DUE (3 revised poems, Poetry cover letter, & course reflection letter) Emailed to me in a single document by midnight on Sunday, October 14