Written Work Due

Aug 22 / Introductions, etc.

Aug 29/ POEM #1. Workshop. Students need to provide all copies (16 plus original) for every workshop.  Organization of presentations and workshops.

NOTE: Thursday, August 30, Anthony Doerr Reading, Kenworthy, 7:30 p.m.

Sep 5/ POEM #2.  Workshop. Read first third (through page 35) of Jab.

Sep 12/ POEM #3. Workshop. Read second third (through page 74) of Jab. Bring in elegies.

NOTE: Thursday, September 13, Gary Williams, Distinguished Humanities Inaugural Lecture, AD AUD. 7:30 p.m. (and play on 9/14)

Sep 19/ POEM #4. RESPONSE, BOOK 1.

Bring in a Big Concept poem.

Ben Fountain Reading, AD  AUD, 7:30 p.m.

Sep 26/ POEM #5. RESPONSE, BOOK 2. Bring in a poem in couplets or tercets. Blank verse? All the better. Finish Jab.

Mark Halliday Reading, Kenworthy, 7:30 p.m.

Oct 3/ POEM #6. Read first third (through p. 57) of Earthly Meditations.  Choose a poem in that book to discuss that is particularly lyrical, musical, gorgeous-sounding.

Jaimee Wriston Colbert Reading, TLC 040, 7:30 p.m.

Oct 10/ POEM #7. RESPONSE, BOOK 3.

Bring in a sestina. Read second third (through p. 108) of Earthly Meditations.  

Oct 17/ POEM #8. RESPONSE, BOOK 4. Bring in a poem you’ve scanned. Identify the meter in every line.  Finish Earthly Meditations.  Conferences this week?

Oct 24/ Workshop.

Oct 31/ POEM #9. RESPONSE, BOOK 5.

NOTE: Thursday, November 1, Jess Walter Reading, TLC 040, 7:30 p.m.

Nov 7/ POEM #10. RESPONSE, BOOK 6.

Workshop.

Nov 14/Conferences. Workshop?

Patricia Hampl Reading, Kenworthy,7:30 p.m.

Nov 28/ Workshop.

Dec 5/ Conferences. Possible workshop.  

Dec 13/ FINALS WEEK. PORTFOLIO DUE.