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Poetry Now. An Arts Now/WRX course / Jessica Bozek. Amaranth Borsuk, Handiwork (2012) Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning (2012 ) Idra Novey, Exit, Civilian (2012) Anna Ross, If a Storm (2013) Zachary Schomburg, Fjords vol. 1 (2012). Recent books.
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Poetry Now An Arts Now/WRX course / Jessica Bozek
Amaranth Borsuk, Handiwork (2012) • Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning(2012) • Idra Novey, Exit, Civilian(2012) • Anna Ross, If a Storm (2013) • Zachary Schomburg, Fjords vol. 1 (2012) Recent books
Students read & responded to poems, book reviews, author interviews/statements of poetics in current issues of online poetry journals • Created a context for final class project, a journal issue Recent journal issues
The students’ own creative & critical writings were prominent texts in the class • Process: Drafts, reflections, revisions • Product: Final journal issue Recent writing
Authors visited our class, both in-person and virtually, via Google Hangout • Julie Joosten, a Toronto poet in town for a reading, visited gave students a writing assignment related to a process she used in writing her new book Visits
Blog (for daily assignments, reading responses, in-class writing) • Online journals (e.g., Jellyfish, Sink) • GetSimple, open-source CMS • The First Experiment Technology
Poetry is happening now • Students required to attend 2 readings/performances outside of class • Students can be active participants in the poetry community, as readers, writers, live audience, contributors to journals Community