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DIAGNOSTIC EXERCISE.

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  1. DIAGNOSTIC EXERCISE Arrange the following 15 words into a poem. (A prose poem is also an option.) Don’t add any words of your own except for the following when needed: prepositions (words like “for,” “to,” and “through”); conjunctions (words such as “but” and “because”); articles (words like “a” or “the”). Also, don’t change any of the language (whether or not you know what a word means), except to adjust verb endings or plural/singular forms. Furthermore, you should not feel obligated to rhyme anything or find a form; you’re not being tested to write a haiku or anything like that. Just go with your intuition and write what you enjoy hearing or imagining. beleaguered bright cochlea doom fallow jar mop nickel pickle rallies salamander sanctify scours tango unctuous

  2. FESS UP As of today, the person I most need to apologize to is . . .

  3. FREE-ASSOCIATE B. Write down your honest responses to the following: Imagine you're at home in front of a cabinet, sideboard, or chest-of-drawers. Open the top drawer. What is the first thing you see in that drawer? What's the first detail that comes to mind about any stranger you met in the last 48 hours? The word "nevus" should mean what? (Don't look it up; make up a definition.) The most important thing to have happened to you when you were six years old is . . . ? Open any book to page 42. (If there's nothing on page 42, go to the next page that has content.) What is the most interesting word in the last line of the page? What is the next item in this series? a stolen kid-skin wallet; chilled vodka; a stranger's underwear; opera glasses; . . . .

  4. SENSORY EXPERIENCE AND IMAGERY Select any three of the following list, and any three of your responses in B, and write an apology to the person you listed in A. You do not have to use these or your responses to “B” in a literal way: they can be figurative images, analogies, or allusions. Just don’t “make up” things to apologize for; keep the intention of this apology real and honest. • broken chopsticks • a purple swan • a dirty elbow • how a carnival clown smells • an ostrich in a delicatessen • the interior of an iceberg • what "hope" tastes like • begonias and a dog biscuit • the latitude and longitude of Reykjavík, Iceland • licking someone's eye • a goblet of piss • dinosaur bones • the sound of a canyon rock • Mrs. Teasdale's appetite for pistachios • the new economy • abalone shell • rancid curry

  5. REVISE AND ADAPT Reinvent your writing today as a short creative work for the next class period: a poem, a short piece of creative nonfiction, a dramatic scene (as in a play), or a short work of fiction. The work should take no more than 3 minutes to read aloud. Bring the revision next week, typed.

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