Day	Date	Reading, Topic
	1/13/2004	Four levels of poetry; the sensory level exercise Assignment: Descriptiive poem The Image Reading for next week: Descriptive poems, list poems Vintage: "Bight" 22, "At the Fishhouses" 25; "Mule Team and Poster" 202; "Poem about People," 453, "Nights of ..." 486; Hammer: "in a trunk" 1;"Ohio Fields" 30; "Sparrow" 54 LG: Firstborn (1st and last poem of each section)
	1/20/2004	Four levels of poetry; ideational level (myth) Assignment: Myth/ persona poems Reading for next week: LG: House on Marshland (all) Hammer and Blaze: Aleshire, "Persephone" 9;Colier "Argos" 53; Cooley, "Nocture" 61;Howe, "Reading Ovid," 1600; Pierce, "Ovidian" 218; Rosen "Cerberus" 239 Pocket: Tennyson, "Ulysses"; Yeats "Leda"; Wright, "Saint Judas"; Sexton, "Cinderella"; Chappell; Narcissus and Echo"; Atwood "Siren's song" 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
	1/27/2004	Four levels of poetry; typographical level (the line); sonic level Assignment: Syllabics and stress Reading Beowulf, Original (just look at it) and an excerpt from Heaney's verse transation Pocket Anthology: Wilbur, "Junk" 287, "The Writer" 290; Moore, "The Fish" 234; Thomas, "Fern Hill" 275; Plath "Metaphors" 343 LG: Triumph of Achilles
	2/3/2004	Four levels of poetry: ideational level (voice) Directives, persona poems Poems for Workshoppping Ben Keever Cande Honeycut Shannon Harry Shawna Solito Reading Online: Homer, Odyssey Excerpt; Frost, Directive; Ash, Road to Ogalma; Wilbur, Advice to a Prophet; Merwin, For A Comng Extinction; Denis Johnson, The White Fires of Venus; Hardy, Channel Firing; Donne, Holy Sonnet Hammer: Collier, "Brave Sparrow" 54 (again); Dunn "A Postmotem guide" 80; Gibbons "Envoi" 121; Sleigh "Prayer" 263; Ryan, "Reminder" 244 Pocket: Raine, A Martian Sends a Postcard Home; 381 LG: Triumph of Achilles
	2/10/2004	Four levels of poetry: sonic level Workshopping: Shawna Solito David Cathcart Christa Abram (handout from last week) Cande Honeycutt Review from two weeks ago, which we didn't talk about Beowulf, Original (just look at it) and an excerpt from Heaney's verse transation Pocket Anthology: Wilbur, "Junk" 287, "The Writer" 290; Moore, "The Fish" 234; Thomas, "Fern Hill" 275; Plath "Metaphors" 343 New: Sestinas Online Bishop, Sestina 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 Gwynn: Alvarez, "Bilingual Sestina" 418 Ashberry, "Farm Implements..." 314 Mayers, Florence "All-American Sestina" 367 Required Assignment: sestinas Suggestions for finding end-words Random words from dictionary Finding six words from the same context (e.g. X files, video games, cartoons, painting, opera, menus, bible, advertising, car repair manual, cookbook, food group, etc.) six cognates (for example, the words helmet, hell, hall, hull, hole, cover, colon, color, conceal, apocalypse, eucalyptus, holster, occult, cellar, housing, and supercilious all come from the same Indo-European root--see American Heritage Dictionary for etymologies)
M	2/16/2004	LAST DAY TO DROP GRAD CLASS WITH A W Four levels of poetry: Sonic level (meter) Shannon Harry (not sure which one..) Directive Sestina Ben Keever (two versions yee-haw!) version 1 version 2 Assignment: iambic pentameter
	2/24/2004	Workshopping for next week Shannon's poem Cande Honeycutt (plus see the one she gave us in class) Shawna version 1 and version 2 David Cathcart's poem cathcart2 Ideational level: Other arts Assignment: Ekphrasis Reading for next week: Hammer & Blaze: Boruch, "Bad Cello" 34"; Fairchild "All the People" 91; Levis "Perfection of Solitude" 182-7 Pocket anthology: Keats, "Ode on a grecian urn" 142; Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium" 201 (see Metropolitan Museum exhibit on Byzantine art); Crane, "Chapineque" 253; Hughes "Dream Boogie" 254; Auden "Musee des Beaux Arts" 263 (also inspired by other work in the same wing); Roethke, "My Papa's Waltz" 266; O'Hara, "The Day Lady Died" 312 Online: Stevens, "The Paltry Nude" (inspired by Botticelli's Birth of Venus) and "Thirteen ways" (inspired by Cubism); Williams "The Dance" The Poets speak of art (online project at Emory University)
	2/24/2004	Procedural poems
	3/2/2004	The research paper Sonic level: kinds of rhyme Assignment: ghazal More in the way of explanation Ghazal net (online site of ghazals in English) Another site with ghazals more explanations Reading for next week (these poems are either ghazals or they use rhyme in ways that disguise it or transform it) Hammer and Blaze: Gibbons, Ghazal 118; Leader, Impetus 179;Ryan Wings of the Morning 247 Pocket anthology: Auden, Musee des beaux arts (again) 262 and Unknown Citizen 263; Hecht, More Light 298; Kumin, "Noted in the NY Times" 306; Chappell "Narcissus and Echo" 349 Online: Clark, Riverside Ghazal; Herbert, Man and The Collar; Owen, Futility; Wilbur, Advice to a prophet (again) and Cottage Street 1953.
	3/9/2004	SPRING HOLIDAY--NO CLASS
	3/16/2004	Typographical level: Stanzas, strophes, verse paragraphs Assignment: borrowed forms Reading: (review last week's--we'll discuss some examples of borrowed forms.
	3/23/2004	Sonic level: meter Ideational level: Procedural poems Poems for workshopping today David Cathcart's poem Ben Keever's poem Reading for next week: Sapphics Explanation: by Betty Ann Whitley A Sapphics page by Alberto Rios at Arizona State (contains some examples) Introduction to Greek Meter (difficult, but interesting) Sappho 's Hymn to Aphrodite Originial greek --just in case; followed by a bunch of poet's translations translation by Elizabeth Vandiver; Examples in English: Pocket Anthology: Steele, Sapphcis against anger 400 Online: Swinburne, Sapphics; Hardy, The Temporary, The All; Lampman, Alycone; Scott, Sapphics for Sappho; Watts, Day of Judgement: An Ode; Hans Schmidt & Johannes Brahms, Sapphic Ode (German and English); A sapphic poem by some of my freshmen poets Procedural poems: Language poetry and "method" poetry Explanation, history and an essay on its political nature Online examples: John Cage's Indeterminacy (hit reload several times); Alice Fulton's A little Hear to Heart with the Horizon; Leslie Scalapino's Tango Found Poetry Explanation Somebody's Found Poetry assignment (if you need a method) Examples: The Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld; Adams, Dense Smoke...; Annie Dillard, selections from Morning Like This Activities: Rhythmic Creations An interactive poetry site (contains mad libs, magnetic poetry, etc) Mad Libs Poetry (here's my example)
	3/30/2004	Ideational level: elegies and animals Ideational level: Nature writing Workshopping Three by Solito (one, two, and three) David Cathcart's poem Compete Shawna's song! To enter the contest, Email her the verses by Sunday morning. She promised we would win something. Readings for Next Week Pocket Anthology: Merwin, For the anniversary 316; Smart, Jubilato Agno 105; Dickey, The Heaven of Animals 295; Gioia, Planting...p.406; James Wright, A Blessing 319; Hammer and Blaze: Adcock, Renovated Zoo 5; Dunn, Postmortem Guide and Burying the Cat (80-81); Frost, St. Louis Zoo 111; Kelly Elegy 173; Online: Levine, Animals are passing from our lives; Hardy, Last Words to a Dumb Friend and At Castle Boterel; Bishop, North Haven, Millay from To Elinor Wylie; Roethke, Elegy for Jane; Justice, Psalm & Lament A small selection of Nature Poems: Hopkins, Windhover; Snyder, Above Pate Valley; Wendell Berry ( an interview); Mary Oliver Wild Geese; etc.
	4/8/2004	Extra All-workshop Class (Thursday 4-4:30 PM at Barleys) Cande's poem Christa's poem Three by Solito (one, two, and three) David Cathcart's poem Shannon's poem (and here's her pentameter), two and three We also have Ben's poem in hardcopy, and we may have poems by Amber and / or Nicole (who, I understand, are not actually enrolled)
	4/13/2004	Sonic level: pantoums and villanelles Pantoums (a definition) Funkhouser, First Pantoum of Summer Cramer, Everyone who Left Us Kizer, Parent's Pantoum Fagan, Saloon Pantoum Barber, The Vigil Justice, Pantoum of the Great Depression Stewart, Punk Pantoum (note the white text--copy and paste into Word, then print it) Reiter, Pantoum Feinfeld, The Pantoum (about pantoums...) Verlaine, Pantoum Negligé (for those who can read French) Villanelle (a definition with examples including Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle... Another definition with most of the classic examples including Bishop, Art of Losing; Roethke, I Wake to Sleep E.A. Robinson, The House on the Hill Wilde, Theocritus: A Villanelle Auden, Villannelle (note white text) Justice, Villanelle at Sundown Disch, Rapist's Villanelle Williams, Villanelle for the Cows Kumin, The Nuns of Childhood Cramer, Villanelle After Burial and Entropic Villanelle a list of other villanelles by famous authors (not all links guaranteed to work)
	4/20/2004	sonic level: sonnets, fourteeners, and triolets Sonnet Herbert, Prayer Keats, Bright Star Meredith, Modern Love--16-line-sonnet sequence (don't read it all) Frost, Design Jarman, Four sonnets Kees, For my Daughter (also in Anthology) Bruce Smith, (a fourteener) Triolet (an explanation) (and another with examples by McPherson, Gioia, and others) Note: this form attracts people who think they are Irish Hardy, Birds at Winter Nightfall and The Coquette, and After (uses Triolet stanza) Cullen, For a Poet Cornford, To a Fat Lady Seen from the Train Teasdale, Four Triolets Triolets for the masses: A bunch of Triolets by MIT students about computing A chatroom challenge: Triolet contest
	4/27/2004	Ideational level: ars poetica; literature and language
	5/4/2004	Satires Portfolio/ party