Sheri-d Wilson's website is www.sheridwilson.com You can email her from there as well to thank her for her presentation or to ask her questions or YOU COULD WRITE A SKETCH POEM (based on the Jack Kerouac tradition she spoke about) which reveals your impressions of Sheri-D, the class today, spoken word, New York, Airplane Paula, Google, you pick. Could be fun. She would love it!!
Homework: Please write and edit your best ever literary paragraph. See previous blogposts for the questions.
Criteria: You can discuss the effectiveness of the literary technique, i.e. how it emphasizes the poem's attitude toward its topic. In Owen's case--war. In Crozier's case--child abuse.
Keep writing poetry. We'll be doing more writing in class next week.
I liked Sheri-d's adage: to write poetry, DON'T WRITE POETRY. INSTEAD, TELL THE TRUTH.
But remember, the details do not have to be factual, you just have to make the reader believe them. You have to believe them. She suggested that one way to edit is to have your editor ask: what is the poem about? what is the poem about? What is the poem about? Until you get your AH-HA!!
Good luck.
No poem due on Tuesday. There will be one due on Thursday, though.
