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Creative Writing

Creative Writing. Write a poem that depends on air Write a poem invested in space Write a poem that has odd line breaks Write a poem about a park Write a poem where you don’t get it. Larry Eigner. Read. Read Eigner’s selected poems While you read: Make one observation Ask one question.

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Creative Writing

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  1. Creative Writing Write a poem that depends on air Write a poem invested in space Write a poem that has odd line breaks Write a poem about a park Write a poem where you don’t get it

  2. Larry Eigner

  3. Read • Read Eigner’s selected poems • While you read: • Make one observation • Ask one question

  4. After reading • Write down your first impression of Eigner’s poetry • What do you notice? • What do you enjoy? • What don’t you understand?

  5. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E • Step 1 • What do you think the above means? • Step 2 • Look at the text you are about to read. It is, in its own way, an essay. How is it structured differently than essays you are used to reading?

  6. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine • Read Clark Coolidge’s description of Eigner’s poetry • While you read: • Mark one place where you understand what is going on—tell why in one sentence • Mark one place that you want to understand better—discuss why in one sentence • When you finish • Summarize what you think the article is talking about

  7. Analysis and Comparison • What do you think the following quote means? “These ‘scenes’ don’t exist, never have. these words comb them through mind. the poem is built pages, hammers, boards, trees, garages, cars horse, bowels : his tonality” • How does this quote relate to Eigner’s poetry?

  8. Analysis and Comparison • What do you think the following quote is trying to communicate about the idea of poetry? Well, how does (some of) the forest go together with the trees. How might it, maybe. Forest of possibilities (in language anyway) – ways in and ways out. Near and far – wide and narrow (circles) Your neighborhood and how much of the world otherwise. Beginning, ending and continuing. What do you think it has to with Eigner’s poems?

  9. Suggest how these two quotes are talking about similar ideas each line a new find (focus) rather than divisions determined by breaks of sound, syntax, etc. … each line equals its own completion and every next line its consequence wholes are only made by motion

  10. Discuss • What is your understanding of Eigner and his poetry at this point? • Step 1 • In no more than 15 words, describe Larry Eigner’s ArsPoetica— • Step 2 • Describe how one would write an Eigneresque poem.

  11. Eigner Poem • Using the front and back of the white paper I am giving you, write two Eigneresque poems.

  12. Mini Workshop • Share your poems • One observation per poem • No “I like” statements

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