JUNE 5: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY/NOTES ON FINAL PORTFOLIO

FINAL FICTION ASSIGNMENT WAS HANDED IN. If you missed the deadline hand in Sina's mailbox: LB building, 6th floor. 

Assignment for next class: write a ghazal [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5781].
Three choices [or choose your own]:

1. Using found language
2. "In the spring men's heads
    turn to _____________"
3. "In the second blue hour
  __________________"

We also looked at erasure poems:
Jen Bervin's can be seen here [about a third of the way down]
http://lemonhound.blogspot.ca/2009/03/buckley-boully-bervin-ongoing-reading.html

and

N+7 Poems:

"S+7, sometimes called N+7 

Replace every noun in a text with the seventh noun after it in a dictionary. For example, "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago..." becomes "Call me islander. Some yeggs ago...". Results will vary depending upon the dictionary used."

 

These originated from a writing group called Oulipo. Poetry written with conceptual constraints. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo

Somebody asked about good use of rhyme. Here is an example by Michael Robbins:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/240798

FINAL PORTFOLIO OFFICIAL INFO:

10-15 pages. [no special binders, folders, title-pages: just your name, and a staple]

Due: Friday June 15th

10-15 pages of your most refined [that is revised] work. The portfolio consists of work you have done from class that has been revised significantly.

5 of these pages will be photocopied from your writing journal, contributing to your overall journal mark. If you did not have your journal for initial examination today, please bring it for next class.

LAST CLASS IS TUESDAY JUNE 12TH.