Movie

In the movie we viewed--Paterson, N.J was a source of poetic inspiration. How does Gillan use the city as poetic inspiration. Explain. What may you use in your own city or town as poetic inspiration?

Dec. 2019 Somerville Poet Laureates reading.

"All that Lies Between Us"

"All that Lies Between Us"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwbLE-faJcU

Hamlet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiWf4I6bOcA

Doug Holder Interviews Poet Brad Rose

What is an Ekphrastic Poem?

What is an Ekphrastic Poem?

An ekphrastic poem is a poem inspired by a work of art. Ekphrastic poems help give words to the feelings inspired by works of art and can amplify the meaning of the artwork. The poem can tell the story of the scene in a painting, express the feelings of the poet as he or she looks at a piece of art, or even contain an imagined dialogue between subjects in the artwork or between the artist and his or her creation.

Here’s an example of the poem Two Monkeys by Brueghel, inspired by the painting of the same name.

How to Write an Ekphrastic Poem:

1. Find a painting or sculpture that interests you. 
2. As you look at the artwork, pay attention to how it makes you feel. Take notes about any sensory impressions it gives you or memories it triggers.
3. Ideas for writing your poem:

• Write about the scene you see in the artwork.
• Think about what the subjects did after the painting. Did they move from that spot? Where did they go?
• Write a conversation between the characters in the piece.
• Write about your experience of looking at the artwork.
• Write as a character in the artwork speaking to the viewer.
• Compare the artwork to something else.
• Imagine a story about the creation of the artwork, or write in the voice of the artist.

Final Exam Question

In Deborah Tannen's article " Sex Lies and Conversations," she states that women often believe that men are not listening to them. Explain Tannen's points--and how they might help you with conversations with other people in general?

Solution Paper Evaluation

What was the problem that was discussed?


Does it seem like an important issue?


Was it presented clearly?


Were technical terms explained?


What was the solution presented?


Were objections presented and answered?


Did  the solution seem feasible?


What evidence was used?


Was proper citation used for outside sources?


Was there a work cited section?


 Grammar issues?

Billy Collins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4vmiAUMTzA

Argument for Nov. 8 Suicide and Texts

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suicide-by-text-inyoung-you-charged-with-urging-boyfriend-alexander-urtula-to-kill-himself/

Converting Prose into Poetry

https://zumpoems.com/tag/converting-prose-into-poetry/

A and P Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgcTWo9NOj0

The Moth

https://player.themoth.org/#/?actionType=ADD_AND_PLAY&storyId=15608

Malcolm X first par

In the essay " My First Conk" by Malcolm X, hair seems to be not a trivial matter, but a concern that is important.  When Malcolm X had his hair straightened in a local barbershop he initially was pleased, but later on realized how degrading that hairstyle was later on.

 When Malcolm X was older, he reflected on the process of the conk. According to X, the conk was, "A degrading incident..." (2). So this wasn't  just a hairstyle, but it had an influence on his tortured psyche.

The conk, according to X, was perverting negro society--it  certainly wasn't a trivial concern.

Malcolm X Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzkxGWshu2w

In text citations

In-text citations: Author-page style

MLA format follows the author-page method of in-text citation. This means that the author's last name and the page number(s) from which the quotation or paraphrase is taken must appear in the text, and a complete reference should appear on your Works Cited page. The author's name may appear either in the sentence itself or in parentheses following the quotation or paraphrase, but the page number(s) should always appear in the parentheses, not in the text of your sentence. For example:

Wordsworth stated that Romantic poetry was marked by a "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (263).

Romantic poetry is characterized by the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" (Wordsworth 263).

Wordsworth extensively explored the role of emotion in the creative process (263).

Both citations in the examples above, (263) and (Wordsworth 263), tell readers that the information in the sentence can be located on page 263 of a work by an author named Wordsworth. If readers want more information about this source, they can turn to the Works Cited page, where, under the name of Wordsworth, they would find the following information:

Wordsworth, William. Lyrical Ballads. Oxford UP, 1967.

In-text citations for print sources with known author

For print sources like books, magazines, scholarly journal articles, and newspapers, provide a signal word or phrase (usually the author’s last name) and a page number. If you provide the signal word/phrase in the sentence, you do not need to include it in the parenthetical citation.

Human beings have been described by Kenneth Burke as "symbol-using animals" (3).

Human beings have been described as "symbol-using animals" (Burke 3).

These examples must correspond to an entry that begins with Burke, which will be the first thing that appears on the left-hand margin of an entry on the Works Cited page:

Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. University of California Press, 1966.

In-text citations for print sources by a corporate author

When a source has a corporate author, it is acceptable to use the name of the corporation followed by the page number for the in-text citation. You should also use abbreviations (e.g., nat'l for national) where appropriate, so as to avoid interrupting the flow of reading with overly long parenthetical citations.

In-text citations for print sources with no known author

When a source has no known author, use a shortened title of the work instead of an author name. Place the title in quotation marks if it's a short work (such as an article) or italicize it if it's a longer work (e.g. plays, books, television shows, entire Web sites) and provide a page number if it is available.

We see so many global warming hotspots in North America likely because this region has "more readily accessible climatic data and more comprehensive programs to monitor and study environmental change . . ." ("Impact of Global Warming").

In this example, since the reader does not know the author of the article, an abbreviated title appears in the parenthetical citation, and the full title of the article appears first at the left-hand margin of its respective entry on the Works Cited page. Thus, the writer includes the title in quotation marks as the signal phrase in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader directly to the source on the Works Cited page. The Works Cited entry appears as follows:

"The Impact of Global Warming in North America." Global Warming: Early Signs. 1999. www.climatehotmap.org/. Accessed 23 Mar. 2009.

Parenthetical citations and Works Cited pages, used in conjunction, allow readers to know which sources you consulted in writing your essay, so that they can either verify your interpretation of the sources or use them in their own scholarly work.

Author-page citation for classic and literary works with multiple editions

Page numbers are always required, but additional citation information can help literary scholars, who may have a different edition of a classic work, like Marx and Engels's The Communist Manifesto. In such cases, give the page number of your edition (making sure the edition is listed in your Works Cited page, of course) followed by a semicolon, and then the appropriate abbreviations for volume (vol.), book (bk.), part (pt.), chapter (ch.), section (sec.), or paragraph (par.). For example:

Marx and Engels described human history as marked by class struggles (79; ch. 1).

Author-page citation for works in an anthology, periodical, or collection

When you cite a work that appears inside a larger source (for instance, an article in a periodical or an essay in a collection), cite the author of the internal source (i.e., the article or essay). For example, to cite Albert Einstein's article "A Brief Outline of the Theory of Relativity," which was published in Nature in 1921, you might write something like this:

Relativity's theoretical foundations can be traced to earlier work by Faraday and Maxwell (Einstein 782).

See also our page on documenting periodicals in the Works Cited.

Citing authors with same last names

Sometimes more information is necessary to identify the source from which a quotation is taken. For instance, if two or more authors have the same last name, provide both authors' first initials (or even the authors' full name if different authors share initials) in your citation. For example:

Although some medical ethicists claim that cloning will lead to designer children (R. Miller 12), others note that the advantages for medical research outweigh this consideration (A. Miller 46).

Citing a work by multiple authors

For a source with two authors, list the authors’ last names in the text or in the parenthetical citation:

Best and Marcus argue that one should read a text for what it says on its surface, rather than looking for some hidden meaning (9).

The authors claim that surface reading looks at what is “evident, perceptible, apprehensible in texts” (Best and Marcus 9).

Corresponding Works Cited entry:

Best, David, and Sharon Marcus. “Surface Reading: An Introduction.” Representations, vol. 108, no. 1, Fall 2009, pp. 1-21. JSTOR, doi:10.1525/rep.2009.108.1.1

For a source with three or more authors, list only the first author’s last name, and replace the additional names with et al.

According to Franck et al., “Current agricultural policies in the U.S. are contributing to the poor health of Americans” (327).

The authors claim that one cause of obesity in the United States is government-funded farm subsidies (Franck et al. 327).

Corresponding Works Cited entry:

Franck, Caroline, et al. “Agricultural Subsidies and the American Obesity Epidemic.” American Journal of Preventative Medicine, vol. 45, no. 3, Sept. 2013, pp. 327-333.

Citing multiple works by the same author

If you cite more than one work by an author, include a shortened title for the particular work from which you are quoting to distinguish it from the others. Put short titles of books in italics and short titles of articles in quotation marks.

Citing two articles by the same author:

Lightenor has argued that computers are not useful tools for small children ("Too Soon" 38), though he has acknowledged elsewhere that early exposure to computer games does lead to better small motor skill development in a child's second and third year ("Hand-Eye Development" 17).

Citing two books by the same author:

Murray states that writing is "a process" that "varies with our thinking style" (Write to Learn 6). Additionally, Murray argues that the purpose of writing is to "carry ideas and information from the mind of one person into the mind of another" (A Writer Teaches Writing 3).

Additionally, if the author's name is not mentioned in the sentence, format your citation with the author's name followed by a comma, followed by a shortened title of the work, and, when appropriate, the page number(s):

Visual studies, because it is such a new discipline, may be "too easy" (Elkins, "Visual Studies" 63).

Citing multivolume works

If you cite from different volumes of a multivolume work, always include the volume number followed by a colon. Put a space after the colon, then provide the page number(s). (If you only cite from one volume, provide only the page number in parentheses.)

. . . as Quintilian wrote in Institutio Oratoria (1: 14-17).

Citing the Bible

In your first parenthetical citation, you want to make clear which Bible you're using (and underline or italicize the title), as each version varies in its translation, followed by book (do not italicize or underline), chapter, and verse. For example:

Ezekiel saw "what seemed to be four living creatures," each with faces of a man, a lion, an ox, and an eagle (New Jerusalem Bible, Ezek. 1.5-10).

If future references employ the same edition of the Bible you’re using, list only the book, chapter, and verse in the parenthetical citation:

John of Patmos echoes this passage when describing his vision (Rev. 4.6-8).

Citing indirect sources

Sometimes you may have to use an indirect source. An indirect source is a source cited within another source. For such indirect quotations, use "qtd. in" to indicate the source you actually consulted. For example:

Ravitch argues that high schools are pressured to act as "social service centers, and they don't do that well" (qtd. in Weisman 259).

Note that, in most cases, a responsible researcher will attempt to find the original source, rather than citing an indirect source.

Citing transcripts, plays, or screenplays

Sources that take the form of a dialog involving two or more participants have special guidelines for their quotation and citation. Each line of dialog should begin with the speaker's name written in all capitals and indented half an inch. A period follows the name (e.g., JAMES.). After the period, write the dialog. Each successive line after the first should receive an additional indentation. When another person begins speaking, start a new line with that person's name indented only half an inch. Repeat this pattern each time the speaker changes. You can include stage directions in the quote if they appear in the original source.

Conclude with a parenthetical that explains where to find the excerpt in the source. Usually, the author and title of the source can be given in a signal phrase before quoting the excerpt, so the concluding parenthetical will often just contain location information like page numbers or act/scene indicators.

Here is an example from O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh.

Alcohol makes an early appearance in O'Neill's play. In the very first scene, O'Neill's characters treat alcohol as a pancaea for their ills:

WILLIE. (Pleadingly) Give me a drink, Rocky. Harry said it was all right. God, I need a drink.

ROCKY. Den grab it. It's right under your nose.

WILLIE. (Avidly) Thanks. (He takes the bottle with both twitching hands and tilts it to his lips and gulps down the whiskey in big swallows.) (1.1).

Citing non-print or sources from the Internet

With more and more scholarly work published on the Internet, you may have to cite sources you found in digital environments. While many sources on the Internet should not be used for scholarly work (reference the OWL's Evaluating Sources of Information resource), some Web sources are perfectly acceptable for research. When creating in-text citations for electronic, film, or Internet sources, remember that your citation must reference the source on your Works Cited page.

Sometimes writers are confused with how to craft parenthetical citations for electronic sources because of the absence of page numbers. However, these sorts of entries often do not require a page number in the parenthetical citation. For electronic and Internet sources, follow the following guidelines:

• Include in the text the first item that appears in the Work Cited entry that corresponds to the citation (e.g. author name, article name, website name, film name).
• Do not provide paragraph numbers or page numbers based on your Web browser’s print preview function.
• Unless you must list the Web site name in the signal phrase in order to get the reader to the appropriate entry, do not include URLs in-text. Only provide partial URLs such as when the name of the site includes, for example, a domain name, like CNN.com or Forbes.com, as opposed to writing out http://www.cnn.com or http://www.forbes.com.

Miscellaneous non-print sources

Two types of non-print sources you may encounter are films and lectures/presentations:

Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo stars Herzog's long-time film partner, Klaus Kinski. During the shooting of Fitzcarraldo, Herzog and Kinski were often at odds, but their explosive relationship fostered a memorable and influential film.

During the presentation, Jane Yates stated that invention and pre-writing are areas of rhetoric that need more attention.

In the two examples above “Herzog” (a film’s director) and “Yates” (a presentor) lead the reader to the first item in each citation’s respective entry on the Works Cited page:

Herzog, Werner, dir. Fitzcarraldo. Perf. Klaus Kinski. Filmverlag der Autoren, 1982.

Yates, Jane. "Invention in Rhetoric and Composition." Gaps Addressed: Future Work in Rhetoric and Composition, CCCC, Palmer House Hilton, 2002. Address.

Electronic sources

Electronic sources may include web pages and online news or magazine articles:

One online film critic stated that Fitzcarraldo "has become notorious for its near-failure and many obstacles" (Taylor, “Fitzcarraldo”).

The Purdue OWL is accessed by millions of users every year. Its "MLA Formatting and Style Guide" is one of the most popular resources.

In the first example (an online magazine article), the writer has chosen not to include the author name in-text; however, two entries from the same author appear in the Works Cited. Thus, the writer includes both the author’s last name and the article title in the parenthetical citation in order to lead the reader to the appropriate entry on the Works Cited page (see below).

In the second example (a web page), a parenthetical citation is not necessary because the page does not list an author, and the title of the article, “MLA Formatting and Style Guide,” is used as a signal phrase within the sentence. If the title of the article was not named in the sentence, an abbreviated version would appear in a parenthetical citation at the end of the sentence. Both corresponding Works Cited entries are as follows:

Taylor, Rumsey. "Fitzcarraldo." Slant, 13 Jun. 2003, www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/fitzcarraldo/. Accessed 29 Sep. 2009. 

"MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The Purdue OWL, 2 Aug. 2016, owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/. Accessed 2 April 2018.

Multiple citations

To cite multiple sources in the same parenthetical reference, separate the citations by a semi-colon:

. . . as has been discussed elsewhere (Burke 3; Dewey 21).

Time-based media sources

When creating in-text citations for media that has a runtime, such as a movie or podcast, include the range of hours, minutes and seconds you plan to reference. For example: (00:02:15-00:02:35).

When a citation is not needed

Common sense and ethics should determine your need for documenting sources. You do not need to give sources for familiar proverbs, well-known quotations, or common knowledge (For example, it is expected that U.S. citizens know that George Washington was the first President.). Remember that citing sources is a rhetorical task, and, as such, can vary based on your audience. If you’re writing for an expert audience of a scholarly journal, for example, you may need to deal with expectations of what constitutes “common knowledge” that differ from common norms

Essay Draft

https://www.esc.edu/online-writing-center/resources/academic-writing/process/essay-draft/

The Patient

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Z9ToHN99I

Quiz Question Sept 27, 2019

Take the poem Skin Head by Patricia Smith, and the short story  Cathedral by Raymond  Carver. What does the Skin Head in Patrica Smith's poem  have in common with the husband in  Cathedral.

Use one quote from each poem and story to back up your argument.  This is a four paragraph essay.  Introduction ( which includes your thesis.)   Two Body Paragraphs- (include quotes from text to back up your argument--or engage the text.)  Conclusion-- the two characters are similar because...

Psycho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s22lNU5jXM4

Leave it to Beaver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fLx9vDjArM

Falling in Love again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYXg7LlzyO8

"Blue Velvet"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwuzI8Y0uW0

Letter to a Young Rap Artist

Look, anyone can stick two words together and rhyme,
But you gotta have rhythm and you gotta have time,
And you gotta have the guts to put it all on the line
And stand up to whole world though it might make you blind

You gotta bleed out your heart, you gotta pour out your soul,
You gotta speak with every single syllable that you know,
And there’s moments you’ll think that you’re apart from the rest,
Still trying and dying, giving it all of your best,

Until you’re out-hustled, out-muscled, and you’re up to your neck,
Until you’re thinking you should stop and maybe give it a rest,
But don’t give up yet, no this is only a test
To dig deep inside and until you out-rhyme the best

You gotta write ‘til you’re sick, you gotta write like He wills it,
Gotta take all of your anger to paper and spill it,
You gotta gather your emotion like and ocean and let it go,
There’s no stopping your hustle and there’s no stopping your flow

So get out there and show all the people that dissed you,
And remind them of the time that they’re all gonna miss you,
When you’re up flying high and looking down to see
All the haters wishing that they were you but can’t be

So you gotta keep on going, holding onto this thing,
And don’t you dare let go no matter how hard it seems,
Just set it up in your mind and you can do anything,
Because it's all in your heart, boy, now just follow your dream.

Interview with Mary Karr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L254wu7bhko

Charles Buk--on love--writing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhT0ecAXPhU

Ginsberg Reads Supermarket

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhTh01CO60Y

Final run...

  4/25

Chapbook Workshop.

ASSIGNMENT

Prepare for chapbook reading
QUIZ

 4/30

QUIZ on poems we discussed in class.

Chapbook Reading

ASSIGNMENT

Chapbook  Due ( 5/2, 5/7, 5/9)

Pinsky, Ginsberg, and Bukowski--

bring in poems you took from their poems

 5/2

Discussion of Pinsky, Ginsberg, and Bukowski--

bring in poems you took from their poems

  5/7 

  Film

  5/9   2nd half of film and discussion

   Final Exam

Poetry Revision Check List

POETRY REVISION CHECKLIST

Step 1: Read through the Checks responding to the questions; if the answer is “No” – FIX IT	Step 2	Step 3
COMMON SENSE CHECK	Peer 1 Name:	Peer 2 Name:
Does your poem say what you want it to say? Is the message clear?
Does your poem make sense all the way through?
Are the lines in the best order?
Have you kept the same point of view? (For example, if you start out describing a flower through the eyes of an elderly gentleman, you don’t want to have one line describing the flower from a child’s point of view.)
Are you happy with the poem?
Think of your poem as a picture, full of images. Are all the images appropriate to the feeling you want to convey? (For example, if your poem is about the peace you feel on summer mornings, you probably don’t want a bloody-mouthed polar bear roaring through the scene.)
Have you kept the same tense throughout the poem? (For example, if you start out saying “I see” and “I want,” you probably don’t want to switch to “I saw” and “I wanted” later in the poem.)
TOO MUCH/TOO LITTLE CHECK
Are there parts of the poem that need to be expanded with more detail or more explanation?
Are there enough details to make readers see what you want them to see?
Are there parts of the poem that are unnecessary or irrelevant and that could be deleted?
BEGINNING/ENDING CHECK
Look at your poem’s opening lines. Do they capture a reader’s interest?
Look at your poem’s concluding lines. Does the ending provide a sense of closure? Is the last line a memorable one?
SOUND CHECK
Read your poem aloud. How does it sound? Are there any words, lines or phrases that stick out and ruin the rhythm or feeling of your poem?
Again, read your poem aloud. Have you emphasized the most interesting or important words by placing them at the beginning or the end of your lines?
WILTED LETTUCE CHECK
When you create a salad, the last thing you want is a dish full of nothing but boring, wilted lettuce. When you create a poem, the last thing you want is lines full of boring, wilted-lettuce kinds of words. Are the words you have chosen fresh and crisp and interesting?
Is every word necessary? Does every word add something to the poem?
THE QUIET AS A MOUSE CHECK
Even the bet poets can fall into the trap of using clichés like “He was as quiet as a mouse” or “Her eyes twinkled like stars.” Do you see any clichés you could eliminate or replace?
THE SHAPE CHECK
How does your poem look on the page? Does it have an interesting and appealing shape?
Are the lines of a sensible length?
Look at the line breaks. Do your line breaks make sense?
Look at your stanza breaks. A stanza in a poem is the equivalent of a paragraph in prose. Poets usually use stanzas to group related thoughts, to slow a certain order of ideas or to indicate a long pause with white space. Do you have a reason for your stanza breaks?
THE POLISHING CHECK
Are all your words spelled correctly?
Is the writing legible and neat or typed?
If you are writing in grammatically correct form, is the grammar correct?
If you are punctuating the poem, is the punctuation correct?

Poems" Man in Booth

https://outlawpoetry.com/2010/doug-holder-the-man-in-the-booth-in-the-midtown-tunnel-lost-girl-on-the-psychiatric-ward/

Sexton Clips

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

Fight Club

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUXWAEX2jlg

A and P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYLD3Ovhr2s

Blair Witch Project--Off stage action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmYsRcLMvO8

Steven King on Short Stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1qItKJ8RiQ

A Good Man is Hard to Find

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raxVfTgyJ0w

Solitary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdeS1vJNgpg

Eng111 Where have you been?

https://vimeo.com/208537521

Memoir Prompts

3 Memoir Prompts

Here are three prompts that you can use for inspiration. 

1) What's a song that brings back memories for you? Listen to the song (if you don't have a recording, you can probably find it on Youtube.com), and travel back in your mind to a time that it makes you remember. Spend a few minutes inside that memory, reliving it in as much detail as possible. Then write about that memory, trying to recreate it on the page. 

2) Write about a conversation that had an impact on your life. Show the scene where the conversation happened, and try to reconstruct parts of the dialogue word-for-word on the page so that readers can "hear" it first-hand. 

3) Look at a photograph of your family. What memories does it bring back? Focus on one of the memories, trying to recall sounds, smells, and other sensations, as well as what things looked like. Then write about it, recreating the scene for the reader. 

Shock Therapy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_mASr1djMM