Arts and Lectures/ Encounters With Excellence

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Good Afternoon.

Rochester Arts & Lectures will once again host high school students at our Thursday night lectures. However, unlike past years and because we are expanding the program to bring speakers into the city schools, we will be offering three evening programs. We can accommodate 16 students plus their teachers. The programs are: 

October 13 Reimagining Home: Rochester. Three poets who grew up in Rochester discuss the influence or not of Rochester on their writings. Cornelius Eady, award winning poet, musician, composer. Marie Howe Poet Emerita of NYS, and Philip Schultz Pulitzer Prize winner. It will be moderated by our own Rochester poet Anthony Leuzi. 

March 23 Reimagining Home: Cuba. Richard Blanco, Inaugural Poet 2013 will discuss his memoir and growing up as a Cuban American.

April 20 Terry Tempest Williams is the author of Refuge, Finding Beauty in a broken world. She is both naturalist, ecofeminist, conservationist, whose writing is truly lyrical no matter the topic. I'm prejudiced, but I think her work is life changing.  

We will give you reserved seating, author background materials, and a copy of the author's book for each student and teacher that participates. 

I realize that transportation is an issue, and we can make volunteers available to assist. 

I will need firm reservations. Last year we were left with many books because of no-shows. Take pity on me. 

Cora Brooks Exercises/30/30

AGENDA:

READ/DISCUSS:   Billy Collins poems

WRITING:  Two Cora Brooks Exercises: 
This is not
Dream of a Thing


SAMPLE:

This is not really an attempt to say what anything is

by trying to describe what it is not for it is not

a representation of a thing and yet it is a thing,

a drawing which IS a thing but a drawing

need not BE OF a thing.

It is not just a three dimensional object reduced to two dimensions-

lines, circling, slashing across a large piece of paper

blue ink spilling across a blank space,

some THING emerging out of NO-THING.

It is not a singular mind’s creation—abstract or concrete—

and while it was intended to be collaborative, it is not

a collaborative work of art.

It is not a flame, a game, or the name of anything.

It cannot be defined, cannot be explained, cannot be found

In our words.  Like the attempt to write a poem—

it is not solid and cannot be grasped in its entirety.

Piecemeal, partial, it invites us.

Sept. portfolio--please submit all assignments for your Sept. portfolio grade/3-/30 poems and previous assignments

NaNoWriMO

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18rYPoRzUwQ_744ZdotHJPO7JHT0Gn5rfnEPReZU9UQA/edit

Billy Collins/Rainer Maria Rilke

AGENDA:

Go to library for Billy Collins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddw1_3ZVjTE

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/billy-collins

Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet

http://carrothers.com/rilke1.htm
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/rainer-maria-rilke

Work on poetry assignments (30/30/ etc.)

HMWK: Read Collins for Friday.

Visual Art and Poetry

AGENDA:

Janice Harrington:
http://janiceharrington.com/

domino players:

http://www.josabela.com/artawareness/lesson05DominoPlayers.aspx

Ekphrastic Poetry:

Select a postcard to write about.  Observe the details.  Create a poem.

or

Response to Janice Harrington poems:
Read Janice Harrington's poems.  Write a response to a poem.

Workshop?

Jane Hirshfield and the Art of Poetry

AGENDA:

Go to this website and read the posting about Jane Hirshfield:


https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/07/21/jane-hirshfield-concentration/

Post a comment reflecting on the ideas in the essay.  Any new insights into the art of poetry?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZdyEDu5LEE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-UKzxrJvQ
Continue working on your 30/30 poems.

Technical Terms Poem

AGENDA:

Go to:

http://writersalmanac.org/

Writing:
Complete Golden Shovel Poem (if you have not already)

New work:
Technical Terms Poem

Read: Diction in Poetry
http://classroom.synonym.com/discussing-diction-poem-2055.html


Daily Poet Sept. 20/21--Choose one exercise

Ongoing: 30/30 book prompts

Scholastic Writing Awards

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards

Go to:

http://www.artandwriting.org/

Golden Shovel Poems

AGENDA:

Introduce Golden Shovel poems.

Write a Golden Shovel poem:

Golden Shovel Poem

HERE ARE THE RULES FOR THE GOLDEN SHOVEL:

• Take a line (or lines) from a poem you admire.
• Use each word in the line (or lines) as an end word in your poem.
• Keep the end words in order.
• Give credit to the poet who originally wrote the line (or lines).
• The new poem does not have to be about the same subject as the poem that offers the end words.

If you pull a line with six words, your poem would be six lines long. If you pull a stanza with 24 words, your poem would be 24 lines long. And so on.
If it’s still kind of abstract, read these two poems to see how Terrance Hayes used a Gwendolyn Brooks poem to write the first golden shovel:

• We Real Cool, by Gwendolyn Brooks (original poem)
• The Golden Shovel, by Terrance Hayes (golden shovel poem)

As you can see, the original golden shovel takes more than a line from the poem. In fact, it pulls every word from the Brooks poem, and it does it twice.
This form is sort of in the tradition of the cento and erasure, but it offers a lot more room for creativity than other found poetry.

Write a Golden Shovel poem. You can go to poets.org or poetryfoundation.org to find poems.

READING: How to Eat a Poem

WRITING:  Work on 30/30 poetry prompts.  Workshop next week?

Bennington Young Writers

http://www.bennington.edu/events/young-writers-awards

BOA Birthday Bash

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boa-benefit-birthday-bash-tickets-26328531346

Mariangelis, Kaneil, Jyeshia, Raina, Asher

Poetry analysis

AGENDA:

EQ: How can poetry be analyzed?

Review HANDOUT: POETRY ANALYSIS


In small groups, read poems from How to Eat a Poem and analyze one poem using the handout:
Poetry Analysis Worksheet

WRITING: Work on 30/30 booklet poems.

Poet Laureate- Herrera

AGENDA:

Finish work from Thursday.

READ: How to Eat a Poem

STUDY AND READ:  Herrera
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/articles/detail/70252

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/52286

ACTIVITY: Begin 30/30 chapbook

Welcome Back/What is Poetry?

AGENDA:

1. Review of Course Criteria

2. What is Poetry? isearch

http://www.runspotrun.com/literary-terms/what-is-poetry/


https://www.arts.gov/operation-homecoming/essays-writing/what-poetry

http://www.shmoop.com/poetry/how-to-read-poem/what-is-poetry.html


http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/article.html?id=398

In groups, make a chart or poster that explains what poetry is and its basic elements



3. Readings from How to Eat a Poem


4. Begin 30/30 Project