[Cwgrad-announcements] CRWT 270 Syllabus

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Syllabus
CRWT 270: Graduate Poetry Workshop

Professor: Chris Abani

There is no workshop on Monday, April 3rd. Class begins on Monday, April
10th. Plenty of time to read and prepare! Check blackboard for updates.

This workshop is aimed at graduate students. As such it will not be a
generative workshop, but rather one that assumes that not only has the
student written poetry before, but that they have a small body of work ready
to be discussed.

The first day of workshop (in person or virtual) I will present everybody
with the opportunity
to ask questions about the workshop and their expectations (on both the part
of the professor and student) other than those outlined in this syllabus.

Student Work:

Every enrolled student is required to submit a sample of work to the
workshop of at least 10-20 poems that have been carefully selected by the
student and arranged with athematic, architectural and overall
"progessional" arc (progession here can be narrative, lyric,
archetypal,etc).

This work must be submitted to the professor in hardcopy prior to the first
day of workshop. The students will then place their work on Blackboard under
"Discussion" in the right hand menu, such that classmates can download and
each print one.

DO NOT MAKE ANY COMMENTS ONLINE UNLESS ASKED TO DO SO. DO NOT BRING A LAPTOP
TO CLASS TO WORK OFF OF IT. YOU MUST PRINT HARDCOPIES OF EVERYONES WORK AND
BRING IT TO CLASS.

Required Reading and Discussion: (BOOKS ARE AVAILABLE IN BOOK SHOP)

1. TOY MEDIUM- Daniel Tiffany

2. 39 MICRO LECTURES IN THE PROXIMITY OF PERFORMANCE

- Matthew Goulish

3. MATADORES- Sarah Gambitto

4. WIND IN A BOX- Terrence Hayes

5. SUNSTONE- Octavio Paz

Each book will be part of a student- led discussion to be determined by
second day of class. In the meantime, all begin reading TOY MEDIUM by Daniel
Tiffany.

There will also be essays posted on Blackboard. Read them all over the
break.

In responding to student work and books, avoid talking about specific poems
until the following has been fully discussed.


1. Progresional Arc

2. Thematic thrusts and/or Arcs

3.The idea of Convergence and Simultaneity

4. Lyric and Narrative Dialectics

5. Translucent Concrete

6. Language Boundaries

7. The Limitations of Translation
-social
-symbolic
-time
-language

8. The Grotesque as An Aesthetic

9. The Next Space

Your grades will be determined by the quality of your in class
conversations/presentations, the poems you submit and your participation in
all group and individual work including reading all the material.

Pleaese be advised that all University policies on plagiarism and all forms
of harassment apply in full here.
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