Monday, January 5:  Portfolio assigned.  What makes a poem good?  How do you know when you are successful?  How do you know when to stop?
Tuesday, January 6:  Workshops 1 and 2 (use the time however you want;  you also have a conference later in the process), Grace and Rosselyn
Wednesday, January 7:  Workshops 3 and 4, Georgia and Sofia
Thursday, January 8:  Workshops 5 and 6, Gabby and Lily 
Friday, January 9:  Workshops 7 and 8, Nati and Monica

Monday, January 12:  Sally Rosen Kindred visits to talk about revision!
Tuesday, January 13:  Workshops 9 and 10, Vale and Vivi
Wednesday, January 14:  Workshops 11 and 12, Zanna and Eve
Thursday, January 15:  Workshops 13 and 14, Izzy and Charlotte
Friday, January 16:  Portfolio due;  celebratory reading

The poetry writing class is very excited to feature its delayed ekphrasis unit!

Thursday 13 November:  Juniors turn in prose poem
Friday 14 November:  Craft Essay:  Doty interview

Monday 17 November:  Doty interview due;  Ekphrasis unit begins;   Introduction to Ekphrasis:  Rilke, Auden, Williams, Gunn, Jennings
Tuesday 18 November:  Seniors turn in prose poem;   Ekphrasis:  Two Poems exercise
Wednesday 19 November:  Mrs. Walsh on field trip;  look at selected pieces on NGA website
Thursday 20 November:  Field trip to NGA!  Yay!  Here is worksheet!  Yay, worksheet!
Friday 21 November:  Field trip debriefing;  Journals due (5 for everyone)

Monday 24 November:  More professional examples
Tuesday 25 November:  No class;  St. Cecilia's Day 

Thanksgiving Break

Monday 1 December:  Workday with conferences
Tuesday 2 December:  Self-Workshop (bring 1 copy of your ekphrasis printed out to class)
Wednesday 3 December:  Workshop
Thursday 4 December:  Poems due;  introduction to the After Howe unit
Friday 5 December:  Journals due (6)

Thursday 30 October:  Introduction to the Prose Poem;  professional examples
Friday 31 October:  No class;  All Hallows' Festival

Monday 3 November:  Student samples, subjects and methods of moving in the prose poem
Tuesday 4 November:  A prompt, review and building upon, and one more sample
Wednesday 5 November:  "Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man"
Thursday 6 November:  Prompts;  poem generation
Friday 7 November:  No class;  half day

Monday 10 November:  How to revise the prose poem;  revising exercises (bring prose poems in progress)
Tuesday 11 November:  Workshop:  Rosselyn, Nati
Wednesday 12 November:  Journals due in honor of Mr. Stohlman (8);  No class by decree of Headmistress Emerita Stankov
Thursday 13 November:  Juniors turn in prose poem
Friday 14 November:  Essay about poetry writing:  Mark Doty

Monday 15 November:  Introduction to new unit
Tuesday 16 November:  Seniors turn in prose poem

Because we don't have access to the National Gallery during the government shutdown, I have moved the translation unit to this position.

Friday 17 October:  Translation considerations;  speaker, audience, purpose

Monday 20 October:  Wang Wei handout, word for word translation play;  register exercise
Tuesday 21 October:  Commit to your original;  Comparative translations in class
Wednesday 22 October:  Writing workday and conferences
Thursday 23 October:  Wang Wei reading due;  Hand in journal (4 entries)
Friday 24 October:  No school

Monday 27 October:  More Wang Wei
Tuesday 28 October:  Writing workday and conferences
Wednesday 29 October:  Workshop
Thursday 30 October:  2 poems due;  celebratory reading;  intro to Ekphrasis unit (NGA or no, we are looking at art!)
Friday 31 October:  No class;  Halloween festival

Thursday 2 October:  Poems due; Dinggedicht intro
Friday 3 October:  Quiz on villanelle, pantoum, ghazal, Millier;  Reading around in more Thing Poems

Monday 6 October:  Haiku walk if the weather is good;  Haiku exercise if the weather is bad
Tuesday 7 October:  Festival Day Our Lady of the Rosary
Wednesday 8 October:  Arthur Sze intro and poems
Thursday 9 October:  No class; PSAT/College counseling;  Evening:  Field trip to the Library of Congress to see Arthur Sze
Friday 10 October:  Probably no class, not sure why...just a feeling...

Monday 13 October:  No class;  Columbus Day
​Tuesday 14 October:  Art of the Poetic Line, or, Hearing the Free Verse Line, feat. Louise Glück
Wednesday 15 October: Workshop; In-class description exercises, familiarization and defamiliarization
Thursday 16 October:  Poems due
Friday 17 October:  Journals due;  quiz on Dinggedicht principles

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Monday 22 September:  Introduction to the forms;  Agha Shahid Ali essay on the ghazal;  student examples
Tuesday 23 September:  More work getting oriented with the forms;  collaborative class villanelle
Wednesday 24 September:  Collaborative villanelle and its lessons
Thursday 25 September:  Brett Millier essay on Elizabeth Bishop's drafts
Friday 26 September:  Journal due;  No class (half day)

Monday 29 September:  Sestina exercise;  line endings and nimbleness
Tuesday 30 September:  Workshop
Wednesday 1 October:  Workday and conferences
Thursday 2 October:  Two poems due
Friday 3 October:  Journal due;  forms and terms test

Thursday 4 January:  Portfolio assigned
Friday 5 January:  Last day to hand in prose poem and other poem;  making a sequence

Monday 8 January:  Conferences in class (prepare by choosing 1–2 poems to discuss)
Tuesday 9 January:  The poetic mindset;  reflections
Wednesday 10 January:  Workshop in class (Anya, Clare, Fiat, Ana);  10 minutes each, decide the way you want to use the time
Thursday 11 January:  Workshop in class (Siena, Margot, Sydney) 
Friday 12 January:  Last day of poetry class;  celebratory reading and party;  journal due;  portfolio due

Monday 11 December:  Professional examples
Tuesday  12 December:  Student samples
Wednesday 13 December:  No class;  field trip
Thursday 14 December:  Writing exercises in class
Friday 15 December:  "Portrait of the Writer as a Fat Man"

Monday 18 December:  Prose poem workday;  Conferences
Tuesday 19 December:  Workshop

Turn in prose poems on Wednesday 20 December OR on Friday 5 January