Schedule

ENGL 491.002: 

Senior Portfolio in Creative Writing

Cynthia Hand

Spring 2017

SCHEDULE (the Poetry edition)

WEEK 4: January 30                                                                                       

Read Chapters 1-3 in The Poetry Home Repair Manual

Write three different openings to the same poem (put in your Google drive folder labeled "Week 4 Exercise")

Pick a craft book (see the page for suggestions) and 2 books of poetry to read for the semester

WEEK 5: February 6                        

Read Chapter 4 of TPHRM and count the syllables and stresses of a poem you’ve written that doesn’t have a set rhyme of meter (write your reaction to this briefly and put in your Google folder labeled "Week 5 Exercises"

WEEK 6: February 13     

Post 2-3 poems for Workshop #1

Read Chapter 5 of TPHRM and revise a poem into a different form from what you typically work in (put in your Google drive folder labeled "Week 6 Exercise")

Read poems for Poem Discussion #1, comment on Google docs

NO CLASS February 20 

WEEK 8: February 27                                         

Read Chapter 6 of TPHRM and work on a poem thoroughly focusing solely on the feeling that the poem imparts on the reader (put in your Google drive folder labeled "Week 8 Exercise")

Craft Talk #1 (Ben)

Read poems for Poem Discussion #2, comment on Google docs

WEEK 9: March 6

Post 2-3 poems for Workshop #2

Read Chapter 7 of TPHRM and write a short analysis of a poem you’re working on in which you think you might be getting in your own way (put in your Google drive folder labeled "Week 9 Exercise")

Read poems for Poetry Discussion #3, comment on Google docs

WEEK 10: March 13                                  

Read Chapter 8 of TPHRM and revise a poem in which you are working from memory (put in your Google drive folder labeled "Week 10 Exercise")

Craft Talk #2 (Carmi)

Read poems for Poetry Discussion #4, comment on Google docs

NO CLASS March 20 (Spring Break)

WEEK 11: March 27       

Post 2-3 poems for Workshop #3 

Read Chapter 9 of TPHRM and revise a poem using another one of the 5 senses (put in your Google drive folder labeled "Week 11 Exercise")

Read poems for Poetry Discussion #5, comment on Google docs

WEEK 12:  April 3

Read Chapter 10 of TPHRM and revise a poem focusing on the verbs (put in your Google drive folder labeled "Week 12 Exercise")

Craft Talk #3 (Kirby)

Read poems for Poetry Discussion #6, comment on Google docs

WEEK 13:   April 10                                           

Post 2-3 poems for Workshop #4

Read Chapter 11 of TPHRM and revise a poem to fine tune a simile or a metaphor (put in your Google drive folder labeled "Week 13 Exercise")

Read poems for Poetry Discussion #7, comment on Google docs

WEEK 14: April 17                  

Read Chapter 12 of TPHRM and write up a plan for places to submit your work (put in your Google drive folder labeled "Week 14 Exercise")
Craft Talk #4 (Charlie)

Read poems for Poetry Discussion #8, comment on Google docs

WEEK 15: April 24                  

Post 2-3 poems for Workshop #5

PORTFOLIO DUE MONDAY, MAY 1, by 12:00p.m