Monday 4 December: Draft of poem 2 due; revision exercises: syntax, rhythm
Tuesday 5 December: Revision exercises: image Wednesday 6 December: Digression and hyperfocus Thursday 7 December: More revision Friday 8 December: 2 poems due; no class; Immaculate Conception All-School Mass Monday 11 December: Introduction of the long lyric Tuesday 12 December: In-class examples Wednesday 13 December: Drafting exercises for the long lyric Thursday 14 December: Drafting exercises and examples of the long lyric Friday 15 December: Draft of two sections of the long lyric; Journals due (5) Monday 18 December: Workday Tuesday 19 December: Workday Wednesday 20 December: Journals due (3); two sections of the long lyric due, others mapped out Thursday 21 December: Celebratory reading Christmas Break Wednesday 1 November: No class; All Saints' Day Mass
Thursday 2 November: Day of Reckoning; workday Friday 3 November: Journals due (9 entries); receive assignment for lyric poem; receive presentation assignment Monday 6 November: Final due date: translation and second poem, along with draftwork; the lyric moment, lyric examples Tuesday 7 November: Workday Wednesday 8 November: The lyric sequence (Glück, Hall, Whitman) Thursday 9 November: The long lyric (Kenyon, Stevens) Friday 10 November: Journal due (5 entries) Monday 13 November: draft due, free verse lyric plus one other poem; workshop Tuesday 14 November: presentations in class; *handouts and/or PowerPoints due before class*; receive Glück essay Wednesday 15 November: Guest speaker: poet Sally Rosen Kindred Thursday 16 November: presentations in class Friday 17 November: Journal due (5 entries); any remaining presentations; Glück essay due Monday 20 November: revision work in class, reading of drafts Tuesday 21 November: Final due date for free verse lyric and one other poem along with draftwork (If you will be absent, please hand in your work before this date.) Monday 27 November: Prose poem in-class exercises: the journal entry Tuesday 28 November: Chance-operations poetry; erasure poetry (exercises to help make diction denser) Wednesday 29 November: Sestina exercise Thursday 30 November: Strategies for revising the prose poem; playing with tone, register, diction, image, syntax Friday 1 December: Journals due (7 entries); 1 draft due for workshop (workshop poems chosen in class) |