English 205 2011 Introduction to Creative Writing Poetry & Workshop Calendar POETRY UNIT

Fall

Week 1: Introduction & Imagery T Aug. 23 Class Introduction Discuss Syllabus Poetry Introduction READ IN-CLASS: Jack Gilbert Tear it Down and The Forgotten Language of the Heart, and Craig Raine The Martian Sends a Postcard Home IN-CLASS EXERCISE: If E.T. were a Purdue student. Th Aug. 25 READINGS: Mary Oliver Getting Ready, Reading Poems (pg. 1 12), Imagery (pg. 92 108), Workshops and Solitude (pg. 112 118); Gregory Orr Four Temperaments and the Forms of Poetry, POEMS: Verse for the Senses: Elizabeth Bishop The Fish (pg. 95-97 in Oliver), Li-Young Lee Eating Together and Eating Alone, Matthew Zapruder The Prelude, Rita Dove Adolescence I & II IN-CLASS EXERCISE: Imagery Exercise Week 2: Imagery & Sound T Aug. 30 DUE: Poem #1 (bring in one copy for me) READINGS: Richard Hugo Writing Off the Subject (handout) POEMS: Feel, Smell: Marie Ponsot Separate, In the Swim, William Carlos Williams Smell Mining Images: Laura Jensen Bad Boats and The Red Dog, James Wright A Blessing and Lying in a Hammock at William Duffys Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota IN-CLASS EXERCISE: Imagery Workshop Th Sept. 1 READINGS: Mary Oliver Sound and More Devices of Sound (pg.19-34) POEMS: Sound: Kevin Young Expecting, Sylvia Plath Daddy, Langston Hughes Theme for English B, Gerard Manley Hopkins The Windhover, Jean Nordaus He is Running

IN-CLASS EXERCISE: From Kim Addonizio and Dorianne Laux, Repetition, Rhythm, and Blues Week 3: Sound, Metaphor, & Simile T Sept. 6 DUE: Poem #2 (bring in 20 copies for full workshop). READINGS: from Marianne Boruch On Metaphor, Natalie Angier Abstract Thoughts? The Body Takes Them Literally POEMS: Like Life Simile and Metaphor: Kenneth Koch To You, Sharon Olds Burn Center Gerald Stern I Remember Galileo, Charles Simic The Fork Image/Abstraction: Stanley Kunitz Day of Foreboding, Richard Siken Scheherezade Th Sept. 8 READINGS: Dorianne Laux How a Poem Happens (handout) POEMS: Extending the Metaphor: Lisel Mueller Love Like Salt, Dorianne Laux Facts About the Moon Workshop 1__________________ 2____________________ 3__________________ Week 4: Diction, Tone, Voice & Persona T Sept. 13 DUE: Poem #3 - Group Workshop Poem #1 (bring in 5 copies) READINGS: Mary Oliver Diction, Tone, Voice (pg. 76 91) POEMS: Voices of delight and desire: e.e. cummings since feeling is first, Tony Hoagland History of Desire Workshop 4_____________________ 5__________________ 6 ____________________ Th Sept. 15 READINGS: Academy of American Poets Poetic Technique: Dramatic Monologue POEMS: Delight and desire (contd): James Tate and Same Tits, Jack Gilbert Portrait Number Five: Against a New York Summer Personae: Anne Sexton Her Kind, John Berryman Dream Song 1 and Dream Song 14, Adrienne Rich Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev Week 5: Line, Stanza, Form T Sept. 20 DUE: Poem #4 (Bring 1 copy for me) DUE: Critiques for Group Workshop Poems #1 READINGS: Mary Oliver Imitation (pg. 13-18); The Line and Some Given Forms (pg. 35 66)

POEMS: Maggie Robbins Suzy Zeus Sets Some Limits, Kevin Young Ode to the Midwest, Mary Leader and Unheroic Couplets, Donald Platt Joy, Th Sept. 22 Workshop 7_____________________________ 8___________________________ 9 ____________________________ 10___________________________ Week 6: Line, Stanza, Form T Sept. 27 DUE: Poem #5 Group Workshop #2 (Bring in 5 copies) POEMS: Sonnet: John Donne Death, Be Not Proud, Pablo Neruda Sonnet XVII, Henri Cole Oil & Steel Villanelle: Elizabeth Bishop One Art, Sylvia Plath Mad Girls Love Song, Theodore Roethke The Waking Workshop 11____________________ 12_________________ 13___________________ Th Sept. 29 READINGS: Oliver Verse That is Free (pg. 67 75), POEMS: Sestina: Miller Williams Shrinking Lonesome Sestina, John Ashberry Farm Implements and Rutabegas in a Landscape Free: Rae Armantrout Form, George Oppen The Forms of Love, Jane Kenyon Evening at the Country Inn Workshop 14________________15__________________16_____________________ Week 7: Form & Revision T Oct. 4 DUE: Critiques for Group Workshop #2 READINGS: Sarah Manguso Why the Reader of Good Prose Poems is Never SadPOEMS: Prose: Carolyn Forche The Colonel, Harryette Mullen Black Nikes, Nicole Cooley Breach Concrete: May Swenson Bleeding and Women, Emmet Williams Like Attracts Like, Mary Leader They Vibrate Th Oct. 6 READINGS: Mary Oliver Revisions (pg. 109 111) Read: Hugo Nuts and Bolts - Coursepack Workshop 17__________________ 18___________________ 19__________________

Week 8: NO CLASSES-OCTOBER BREAK

POETRY PORTFOLIO DUE - HEAV 442 on Monday, October 17 at Noon