Personal Mythology of
Organic Poetry Workshop
Tuesday, April 14, 2009:
Week Two
(Sound & Body)
Week One (with links!)
Week Two
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6
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Read
Nate Mackey - Song of the Andoumbolou: 11
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Discussion
of previous week. Personal Myth grid pointers. Any questions? Questions on
Projective Verse?
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Play
Eileen Myles cuts:
1.
Untitled
(Matthew Shepard)
2.
On
Proprioception
3.
On
Working Class Speech
4.
Milk
5.
On
Milk
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Hand
out Questionnaire
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Wanda Coleman:
Read American Sonnets, play her reading #12. Emphasize the notion of a
PROJECT. Do American Sonnets exercise, with handout, using a line or
image from the end of the Duo Corpse poem as a starting point. Try to get
something quintessentially U.S. American in it.
I
do not compose poetry to show you what I have seen, but rather because I
have seen…this poet’s job is not to tell you what it is like, but to make a
poem…Not trying to use your poems to prove a point, or address an argument. Not
to try to control what they’re (the poems) are doing…but rather to be a kind of
audience listening to where the poem is going to go…the practice of outside…Try to forget your own voice…and listen
hard for what the language is saying… you yourself are the audience, hearing
a voice you’ve trained your ear to receive (emphasis added)… (Bowering 6)
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Play
McClure – Ghost Tantras, have class
read some tantras.
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Write
16 words that correspond to your notion of sound. Things you like to hear, or
that represent your past, present and future; your good side as well as your
shadow side. These are concrete words that you think sound good. You like
saying and hearing these words.
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Another
American Sonnet: Pick up from the
last image or line from your American Sonnet and write a poem of 14-16 more
lines.
Assignment:
Complete
questionnaire; write two additional American Sonnets and have them printed out
for next week. Finish SOUND words if not done already and come next week with
questions/comments on Eileen Myles’ The End of New England essay.