Article on David Wojnarowicz, author of Close to the Knives

for 11/30-12/2

Read and come prepared to discuss Essay Packet 2 available on myemich files

Goldberg chapters on syllabus

Keep working on your creative 'word' essay (writing nonfiction exercise posted on myemich); bring a typed copy to class to share

Group book publishing project, keep working on this

Final portfolio assignment on myemich files

Blog response of essay packet 2 (only 2 blog responses left, make the most of these)

for next week 11/9-11

Tue: Julie Patton Interview: http://home.jps.net/~nada/patton.htm

eavesdropping exercise: bring it with you to discuss/share on Tue


Thur: Essay Packet 1 (on myemich); read/print/bring to discuss
Blog on Essay Packet; choose 1-2 of the essays to discuss using specific examples

All Bathhouse responses due BY / NO LATER THAN 11/18

this week 11/2-11/4

Today:

Fiction Packet 3 available on myemich: read it and be prepared to discuss a few of the stories.


Thur: bring 1-2 stories (2 copies) to share/workshop/turn in

Blog post on fiction packet 3 or on something you're reading outside of this class

Keep working on writing exercises from handout (on myemich: 3 ficition writing exercises)

for this week 10/26, 28

check the syllabus

do the reading and be prepared to discuss: Gladman's To After That (continued discussion), Burroway, Goldberg

Midterm Portfolio Due Thur + terms

writing assignment: choose a line/sentence from Gladman's To After That and use this as the first line of your own story. Copy the sentence, and then continue how you would like the story to go. Do this 2-3 times using different sentences from Gladman.

Blog response on any of the reading for the week due Thur

*if you haven't given me any bathhouse reading responses (hard copy) you should do so and/or talk to me about it.

for next week 10/19, 21

For Tue:
come prepared to discuss Proulx's "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water" in fiction packet 2

Read/listen to work by Christian Bok:
http://www.arras.net/RNG/flash/eunoia/eunoia_final.html
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bok.php
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bok/

Thur: Come prepared to discuss Renee Gladman's Book To After That
Blog response: on Gladman's Book To After That

fiction writing exercises:

*Make a list of four qualities/characteristics that describe a character real or imagined. Place that character in a scene and write the scene so that the qualities are conveyed through significant detail. Use no generalizations and no judgments. No word on your list should appear in the scene. Use detail and description to SHOW the qualities through the scene and the actions of the character.

*Write a 200-word description of a place. You can use any and all sensory descriptions but sight: you can describe what it feels like, sounds like, smells like and even tastes like. Try to write the description in such a way that people will not miss the visual details. Put a character in that place and have her/him do something.

great revision of a sonnet

Mara Geiger
J Darling
CRTW 201



Update of Shakespeare’s sonnet 115

the tweets i have tweeted u r not accurate
even that time i commented on ur wall that i luved u a million
and i couldn’t imagine luving u more than at that moment
yet i luv u so much more!
time changes everything
creating false promises, deceitful politicians,
wrinkles, ruining the most sincere intentions,
even making hard asses lighten up a bit
so even tho time may change these feelings
why shouldn’t i txt u every minute of the day how i <3 u infinity
i was sure as hell when i tweeted u and even though things change
my luv for u has not yet matured
so how can i profess infinite luv when it grows infinitely more