Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Filling Up Our Portfolios & Imagery

After our poetry exercises today, please continue to write the next poem for your portfolio. You may put any other drafts of the poetry exercises in your portfolio as well.

Gwendolyn Brooks assignment:

Poem option #1: Write a poem about your neighborhood or family or a fictional neighborhood or family. Don't like neighborhoods...? pick a theme and there you go...

Poem option #2: Write a poem centered around a specific character or person. Real or imaginary. Write. Create a draft. Complete the draft. Call it draft #1.

Poem option #3: Repeat the process (writing option #1 & #2) as often as you'd like. Try to link your series of poems dealing with one place or character in a poetry cycle.

HOMEWORK: Please read Mary Oliver's advice (handout) on Imagery. Complete the 10 questions to hand in on Friday, Oct. 7.

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This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.