English 609: Poetry Writing

What's due today:

Discussion of Byer's Wildwood Flower using prompt I provided

Discussion of the sonic poems assigned

Workshopping (use this prompt):

What's due next class:

Reading for next week: Myth/ persona poems

• Lux, Collected (read sections entitled "Sunday" (page 25) and "Half Promised Land" (starting on page 54))
  • Use this worksheet to make your way through the book (I will collect your worksheet after you use it for discussion)
• Online, myth (all these*): Collier "Argos", Tennyson, "Ulysses"; Yeats "Leda"; Wright, "Saint Judas"; Atwood "Siren's song", Stevens, "The World as Meditation", Sexton, Her Kind*, Gluck, Gretel in Darkness (or here); Pinksy, Childhood of Jesus; Adams, Cerberus at the SPCA
• Look up the Myths:
  • Encyclopedia Mythica
  • Mythweb searchable encyclopedia
  • Perseus project
  • Greek Mythology Link
  • SurLaLune Annotated Fairy Tales site
  • Grimm's Fairy Tales
  • Folk and Fairy Tales resource page
  • Infancy Gospel of Thomas (for Pinsky poem)
    

Writing Homework: Try a sonic poem that uses sounds.