English 609: Poetry Writing

What's due today:

Four levels of poetry; the sensory level

exercises

What's due next class:

Assignment:

• Commonplace book or notebook
• Descriptive poem
• The Image

Reading for next week: Descriptive poems, list poems

• Addonzio, Ordinary Genius, chapters 1-5, 30
• Poet's Companion 85-103 (Blackboard)
• Online: "In a station of the Metro,""At the Fishhouses*"; "By the Road to the Contagious Hospital*,""The Beautiful Changes,", "Lying in a Hammock," "Above Pate Valley*"