We will meet at my house for our final exam session at 1:30 on May 2nd, a Thursday.
9800 Seymour Street
Houghton
Directions:
On foot, cross the little bridge behind Lambein.
When you reach Luckey Road at the top of the incline, turn right.
The second house on the right, the red house, is mine.
We will be interacting with and listening to two "local" poets, Jack Leax and Linda Mills-Woolsey. Please be familiar with their work in terms of the handout I will give in class. Be ready to engage them in discussion.
Professor Emeritus Jack Leax has written many books in many forms. He taught at Houghton College for 40 years before his retirement. He continues to practice his craft. Dr. Linda Mills-Woolsey is Dean of our institution. She is both a 19th Century scholar and a practicing poet.
As to the poems required for our course:
Please work up until the day of our final exam period. Post all the poems/revisions you would like to have considered for the poetry part of your grade. Your last post should begin with the titles of the ten poems that you have chosen to represent your best work.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Art Begats Poems: More Baby Poems
Some time Thursday or Friday or Saturday, spend an hour in the Ortlip Gallery looking at the work in the Juried Student Art Show.
My suggestion is that you make an initial pass or tour of the work on display, noting the pieces that catch your eye or that arouse interest or curiosity. Go back to the several pieces that you made notes about and look at those few until you find one that triggers something, that starts a chain of associations, or that gives you a poetic line or that creates a poem idea.
Then write a poem from that starting point.
When you post this poem (class time Tuesday), you will want to give credit to the artist/work in some way either with identifiers in the poem itself, or in the title of your poem, or in an italicized "dedication" line under the title (after Stud Dent's painting, Wreckless Love).
The poem should be long enough to do something with the inspiration (let's arbitrarily say a minimum of 6 lines), and it can take any form you choose. It does not have work in concert with the poem itself; all it needs is a clear jumping off point.
When the Senior Art Show is put up and open, we can repeat this assignment.
My suggestion is that you make an initial pass or tour of the work on display, noting the pieces that catch your eye or that arouse interest or curiosity. Go back to the several pieces that you made notes about and look at those few until you find one that triggers something, that starts a chain of associations, or that gives you a poetic line or that creates a poem idea.
Then write a poem from that starting point.
When you post this poem (class time Tuesday), you will want to give credit to the artist/work in some way either with identifiers in the poem itself, or in the title of your poem, or in an italicized "dedication" line under the title (after Stud Dent's painting, Wreckless Love).
The poem should be long enough to do something with the inspiration (let's arbitrarily say a minimum of 6 lines), and it can take any form you choose. It does not have work in concert with the poem itself; all it needs is a clear jumping off point.
When the Senior Art Show is put up and open, we can repeat this assignment.
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