Pantoum is due tomorrow. Typed or handwritten is fine.
You need to get into the habit of writing each night.
Every night there is homework in writing class.
Often, you decide what it is.
Choosing to take a night off will not help build skills in the long run.
You need to be in shape for when the poem wishes to arrive.
Tomorrow, during workshop, you must spend at least 10 minutes per poem.
We edited Prasant's poem today as a class.
What did you learn from that experience? Be prepared to discuss it tomorrow as we proceed.
Your two poems this week will be due Friday.
Please, do not hand in "exercises". Instead, hand in something that you know
meets the criteria, something that surprises you, something you'd like to publish one day,
once you have all the bugs out.
Also, do come and see me after school or before school or during lab time so that
you get some one to one time.
To check to see if you have one a BCTELA writing prize from last year, Google BCTELA
and the winners are announced on their home page.
There are a lot of Claremont names.
Way to go!!
Also, I have heard from Bryn that he has registered for a writing workshop this weekend at the Victoria Writers Festival. Let me know if you intend to go.
There are also two fabulous poets reading at Planet Earth Poetry, Friday night, at the MOka HOuse
Cafe on Hillside across from the Hillside Mall, near Shelbourne St. $3.00 cover charge.
Barbara Pelman is reading and Jeannette Lynes. We have all of their books in our library. Check them out! (Chocolate bar for anyone who gets this pun and emails me the two meanings). la la la
