Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced”; Jack Gilbert, “Don Giovanni on his Way to Hell”; Wallace Stevens, “Jar in Tennessee” ESSAYS (provided): John Hollander, Rhyme’s Reason (excerpts); Lyn Hejinian, “The Rejection of Closure” FILM (required): Bela Tarr, “The Turin Horse” NO CLASS – Feb 19th Class 9, Feb 21st (Wednesday) Poetry Workshop (Group 1) Group 2: Bring copies of your poem for next workshop Group 3: Submit exercise to me in class Class 10, Feb 26th (Monday) Autobiographical ‘I’; exercises POEMS (provided): Claudia Rankine, Plot (excerpt); Walt Whitman, Song of Myself,” (selected sections); William Wordsworth, “Stepping Westward”; Emily Dickinson, “Tell all the truth but tell it slant”; Yusef Komunyakaa, “Facing It” ESSAYS (optional and provided): Claudia Rankine, “The First Person in the Century”; Yusef Komunyakaa, “The Autobiographical ‘I’”; Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson (excerpt) FILM (optional): Werner Herzog, “Grizzly Man” Class 11, Feb 28th (Wednesday) Poetry Workshop (Group 2) Group 3: Bring copies of your poem for next workshop Group 1: Submit exercise to me in class Class 12, March 5th (Monday) Self, Voice, Persona; exercises POETRY: Zbigniew Herbert (selected); Louise Gluck (selected); Lucie Brock-Broido (selected); Elizabeth Alexander, “The Venus Hottentot”; Alice Notley (selected) FILM (required): Andrei Tarkovsky, “Nastalghia” Class 13, March 7th (Wednesday) Poetry Workshop (Group 3) Group 1+2: Submit exercise to me in class NO CLASS- March 12th NO CLASS- March 14th Class 14, March 19th (Monday) The Long Poem POEM: Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay” Class 15, March 21st (Wednesday) Poetry Reading and Discussion REVISIONS of 2 due
Fiction * See submission schedule in Further Information * Class 16, March 26th (Monday) Craft READING: Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room and selected stories (provided) EXERCISE: Choose inspirational lines; write a 1st sentence FILM (required): Documentary, “Between the Folds” Class 17, March 21st (Wednesday) Fiction Workshop (3 people) Class 18, April 2nd (Monday) Craft and Fiction Workshop (1 person) READING: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis EXERCISE: Choose inspirational lines; write a 1st sentence FILM (optional): David Lynch, “The Elephant Man” Class 19, March 28th (Wednesday) Fiction Workshop (3 people) Class 20, April 9th (Monday) Craft and Fiction Workshop (1 person) READING: Claire Louise Bennett, Pond EXERCISE: Choose inspirational lines; write a 1st sentence FILM (optional): Harmony Korine, “Gummo” Class 21, April 4th (Wednesday) Fiction Workshop (3 people) Class 22, April 16th (Monday) Craft and Fiction Workshop (1 person) READING (provided): Mark Richard, The Ice at the Bottom of the World (selected); Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find (selected); Jason Schwartz, A German Picturesque (selected) EXERCISE: Choose inspirational lines; write a 1st sentence FILM (required): Jim Sheridan, “The Field” Class 23, April 11th (Wednesday) Fiction Workshop (3 people) Class 24, April 23rd (Monday) Craft and Fiction Workshop (1 person) READING (provided): Amy Hempel, Collected Short Stories (selected); Lydia Davis Collected Short Stories (selected); James Joyce, Dubliners (selected) EXERCISE: Choose inspirational lines; write a 1st sentence FILM (optional): Jules Dassin, “Never on Sunday” Class 25, April 18th (Wednesday) Fiction Workshop (3 people) 26, April 30th (Monday) Craft and Fiction Workshop (1 person) READING: Don Delillo, The Body Artist and selected stories (provided) EXERCISE: Choose inspirational lines; write a 1st sentence