In The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, editors and poets Mark Strand and Evan Boland write: “If metrical forms (sonnets, villanelles, etc) are the architexture of of poetry, then the shaping forms of ode, elegy, and pastoral are its environment.”
“Writers by the Sea”: Creativity from Gwendolyn Alley’s English V01B Ventura College Summer 2009 Introduction by Gwendolyn Alley You hold in your hand work that we have selected to share with you, the reader, work that we wrote, for the most part, this summer 2009 as part of our productivity for English 1B at Ventura […]
Dear students, This is it–the home stretch! We’ve gone over each of these pieces in parts, but here is the whole. We will go over the in-class final with more specifics on Tuesday July 28; we will also go over the fallacies handout. FINAL PROJECTS & DUE DATES • Group Research Blogs: Due Mon. July […]
“Books have to be read (worse luck, for it takes a long time); it is the only way of discovering what they contain.” E. M. Forster, Introductory, Aspects of the Novel “We have visualized the novelists of the last two centuries all writing together in one room, subject to the same emotions and putting the […]
US Poet Laureate Kay Ryan DEW by Kay Ryan, US Poet Laureate As neatly as peas in their green canoe, as discreetly as beads strung in a row, sit drops of dew along a blade of grass. But unattached and subject to their weight, they slip if they accumulate. Down the green tongue out of […]
A paper analyzing the embedded “poetic” texts which resemble oral narratives: https://facultystaff.richmond.edu/~rnelson/kaupata.html This next paper, by UCLA Professor Paula Gunn Allen, can be accessed by students using their “900″ number or student ID number through their college library: “Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony“ American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 4 (Autumn, 1990), […]
Some ideas to consider and some questions to ask when reading Part One of Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Thanks goes to Stanford’s Great Works Program and to the observations of UCSC Professor Paul Skenazy. Basic timeline: Sethe came to Sweet Home at 13, chose Halle at 14, and was married to Halle for six years bearing […]
“The first time I encountered a Jen Bervin poem,” writes Philip Metres in his review of Bervin’s Nets, “was in a broadside format, among the books, chaps, seven inches, and other paraphernalia on the Ugly Duckling Presse table at the AWP conference in Chicago in 2004. In a small wooden frame, a short poem: 4 […]
Some works of zen haiku by Santoka Taneda from the collection Mountain Tasting translated from the Japanese and introduced by John Stevens: If there are mountains, I look at the mountains.: On rainy days, I listen to the rain. Spring, summer, autumn, winter. Tomorrow too will be good. Tonight too is good. During the Japanese-Chinese […]
POETRY Ventura’s Favorite Poem Project “Share your favorite poem with Ventura” Tuesday, July 14 at 5:30pm-7:30pm Zoey’s Café and Loft no feature Robert Peake, featured reader Tuesday Night Poets Tuesday, July 14 7:30pm open mic follows Friday on Saturday Feature: F. Albert Salinas Open mic to follow Host by Friday 7:30PM Saturday, July 18th Bell […]
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