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.