English 609: Poetry Writing

What's due today:

• Group-led discussion of Collected books
• Discussion of Paper topics
• Discussion: tapping the unconscious and Bly's Leaping Poetry
• Turco discussion: Sonic level: rhyme
• Workshop

What's due next class:

Reading for next week:

Sapphics

• Explanation: by Betty Ann Whitley
• A Sapphics page by Alberto Rios at Arizona State (contains some examples)
• Another article by Rachel Wetzsteon
• Poets.org article and example
• Introduction to Greek Meter (difficult, but interesting)
• Sappho 's Hymn to Aphrodite
  • Originial greek --just in case; followed by a bunch of poet's translations
  • translation by Elizabeth Vandiver;
• Online: Swinburne, Sapphics; Hardy, The Temporary, The All; Lampman, Alycone; Scott, Sapphics for Sappho; Watts, Day of Judgement: An Ode; Hans Schmidt & Johannes Brahms, Sapphic Ode (German and English); Pollitt, Two Cats; A sapphic poem by some of my freshmen poets

Homework: write a ghazal or a poem that borrows a form or rhyme strategy (varied line length, enjambment, half rhyme, internal rhyme, etc.) from another poem (make sure that it rhymes and that you observe some of the rules of hiding rhyme).