Class is cancelled Friday but you have the assignment. Read the Shane Rhodes' pieces. In the first one, I edited out all the imagery. Look familiar? Most new writers do not write enough. They write the word love (and inside their heads an enormous scene is painted but unless they write it down, the reader has no idea what you mean when you write that word). This week's assignment is asking you to be specific. Use language in unique ways.
Have you all posted a prose poem on Edmodo? Please go in and read your peers' work and comment on the ones that use language in unique and imaginative ways. Be specific in your compliments.
TWO POEMS DUE TUESDAY. ANY STYLE. FOLLOW THE CRITERIA. IF YOU ARE HANDING IN YOUR SHORT POEMS, TWO SHORT POEMS EQUALS 1.
Short poems: Nov. 1 will be here soon. I'd like to see your drafts by WEd. Oct. 26th. Hand them in. Make sure they have titles.
HOMEWORK: Read modern poetry. Read the work of the poet you plan to present. The more you read, the more you train your eye, ear, heart. If you are in good imaginative shape, the poems will come. If not they hover and make you suffer!! AH it's a curse to be a writer but a blessing, too.
