MAKE SURE YOU HAVE EMAILED ME YOUR MANUSCRIPT, PLEASE. SEND TO AURORA@SHAW.CA.
If you were absent today, please pick up a short story book from the learning commons. Each student will read a different author. I have spread out a number of books on top of a bookshelf at the back near the short story shelf in the learning commons. If you are presenting a fiction author, you may use a chapter from a novel or a story from his/her book.
This weekend: Choose one story to read. Read it like a poet would read a story to find out what fiction writers do that poets do not! Find a passage (a description of setting or character, action, dialogue, exposition, an intro or a conclusion) that you find remarkable. You don't know what the author is doing but you sure would like to learn how to do it.
Also: Have all your poems available electronically so that we can prepare to send poems out to magazines. Meet in the computer lab on Wednesday.
Have a fabulous weekend. I'm really delighted to be able to read your exquisite poems this weekend.
