English 609: Poetry Writing
November 16, 2017
What's due today:
- Topics for papers (due December 7, 2017)
- Elegies and Animals
- Workshopping
What's due next class:
Sonic level: pantoums and villanelles (read for next week)
- Pantoums (a
definition)
- Funkhouser, First Pantoum of Summer
- Cramer, Everyone who Left Us
- Kizer, Parent's Pantoum
- Fagan, Saloon Pantoum
- Cathy Barber, The Vigil
- Justice, Pantoum of the Great Depression
- Stewart, Punk Pantoum (note the white text--copy and paste into Word, then print it)
- Jendi Reiter, Pantoum (scroll down to it)
- Feinfeld, The Pantoum (about pantoums...)
- Verlaine, Pantoum Negligé (for those who can read French)
- Stallings, Another Lullaby for Insomniacs
- Villanelle (a
definition with examples including Thomas,
Do Not Go Gentle...
- Another definition with most of the classic examples including Bishop, Art of Losing; Roethke, I Wake to Sleep
- E.A. Robinson, The House on the Hill
- Wilde, Theocritus: A Villanelle
- Auden, Villanelle (in there with some others)
- Justice, Villanelle at Sundown
- Disch, Rapist's Villanelle (scroll down) and Entropic Villanelle (scroll down)
- Williams, Villanelle for the Cows
- Kumin, The Nuns of Childhood
- Cramer, Villanelle After Burial
- de los Santos, For a Stillborn
- Terza Rima and Terzanelle
- Terza Rima Examples:
- Divine Comedy
- Acquainted with the Night
- One of mine (with dogs)
Homework: Write an elegy or animal poem (or choose another topic)