Orientation: Policy sheet Thursday 2 September: Introduction to the class, basic parameters and structures, journal writing, how creative writing is graded, lyric vs. narrative poetry Friday 3 September: Interview with Kaveh Akbar from The Paris Review, process and creativity, review of the sonnet, sonnet assignment made; look in the textbook, at student samples, at contemporary sonnets for inspiration. Your own sonnet for this assignment must make meter and rhyme. When you revise it later, you may revise out meter or rhyme as you prefer. Monday 6 September: No class, Labor Day Tuesday 7 September: Sonnet forms reviewed; gestural structure; iambic pentameter Wednesday 8 September: Beginning with the couplet, flipping the couplet; student sonnet samples; samples from Boland and Strand; looking at samples for gestural structure, imagism, meter, and rhyme; your friend, RhymeZone, the rhyming dictionary Thursday 9 September: "A Poem is a Walk" by A. R. Ammons (essay only) Friday 10 September: Journals due before school to be returned by end of day (hand in to my office); poem workday, individual check-ins Monday 13 September: Syntax, diction, register, rhyme and off-rhyme Tuesday 14 September: Sonnet workshop Wednesday 15 September: Terms and reading quiz Thursday 16 September: Sonnet due; villanelle/pantoum/ghazal assignment made (all assignments from this point will be for two poems--one in the target form, one of your choice) Comments are closed.
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