Advanced Poetry Online Assignments

 

 

Assignment for January 26

 

Reading:        Bob Perelman poems & Questions of Possibility, “Introduction.”

 

Writing:         Exercise:  A formal quatrain, with a rhyme scheme & a definite metrical pattern.

 

Submit:   One original poem for review (does not have to be new).

 

Please submit writing to my email address at m-cole@wiu.edu by 5:30 on January 26.

 

 

Assignment for February 2

 

Reading:        Thom Gunn poems & Questions of Possibility, “The Age of the Sestina.”

 

Writing:         Exercise:  Come to class with a sestina.

 

                        Come to class with an original poem to workshop. Be sure to have printouts of the Perelman & Gunn poems.

 

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