English 609: Poetry Writing

What's due today:

• Discussion of Hugo
• Workshopping (use this prompt):
• Four levels of poetry: sonic level (accentual prosody and syllabic prosody)
• Workshopping (use this prompt):

What's due next class:

Reading for next week: repeating forms

Poet's Companion 151-170

Poetry Reading for next week Sestinas

• Bishop, Sestina and a cool article about it (here is the entire article)
• Cummins, from The Whole Truth (sestina sequence)
  • Great essay by Cummins on sestinas
• Angelica Waters, Child Reading
• A bunch of recent sestinas by contempary authors
• Another collection

Online: Other repeating forms

• Canzonetta
• Triolet
• Quatern
• Rondel
• Pantoums

Writing homework: Try a directive. Try a poem using either syllabic or stress prosody.