Week Three Creative Writing Reading Assignment
This week's reading addresses something more of what lies at the heart of poetry, the condensed language and specific images that bring emphasis and lend vitality to virtually every aspect of human experience.
So use some of what you learned this week and last when you revise your first week's assignment, which I get back to you later than I would have liked.
Read closely these two chapters and put to use in this week's writing all that you learn and continue to practice--from all the class readings, shared work, and discussions.
For this week, read the following materials:
The Creative Writing Guide:
Chapter Five: "The Sound of Poetry," 88-104
Chapter Six: "The Rhythm of Poetry," 108-119.
Road Trip:
"Twyla Hansen," 184-200 (Twyla Hansen visited campus nearly two years ago; take the time to look at the video from her reading.)
"J. V. Brummels," 204-219
Read, as always, the current poem for discussion; in addition and again, take a look in the archive as well--cut and paste what you like. Look at the poem(s) and try in discussions to make connections with the class readings, especially with the second thread.
As always, provide specific examples by way of support.
And try to get earlier to the threads, for matters lag a bit for many of you at this juncture in the term. Get in the habit of getting early to the discussions.
As the notes indicate, this week's readings take you to the heart of poetry in that the material details much more of the "how of the matter."
Read the chapters carefully, therefore, and see how what our text has to say finds reflection in what this week's featured Nebraska poets have to tell you about their writing and how what they write finds emphasis in our text and in our discussions.
Be sure to read the class material carefully and with interest--and continue to add to Discussion Thread #3, where you post your work for others in the class to read.
Over the term, I will work to reconstitute the section, destroyed by accident, devoted to student work. To that end, take a look at the student examples; I will add some of your work to the mix as I turn my attention to the writing.
Enjoy a good, good week.
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