English 609: Poetry Writing

What's due today:

• Sapphics and other non-standard metrical poems
• Workshopping
• Topics for paper due by next week

What's due next class:

Readings for Next Week: Elegies and Animals

• Turco: 148-149
• Online Dickinson, 328; Frost, Oven Bird, Design;Jeffers, Fire on the Hills; Cummings "my father moved..." ; Bishop Roosters; Merwin, For the anniversary; Dickey, The Heaven of Animals ; Gioia, Planting a Sequoiah; O'Hara, The Day Lady Died; James Wright, A Blessing; Kees For My Daughter; Tate, The Lost Pilot; Ryan, Home to Roost
• Online: Broughton, Song for Sampson, Levine, Animals are passing from our lives; Hardy, Last Words to a Dumb Friend and At Castle Boterel; Bishop, North Haven, Millay from To Elinor Wylie; Roethke, Elegy for Jane; Auden, Elegy for W.B. Yeats, Justice, Psalm & Lament; Smart, Jubilate Agno; Dickey, Dusk of Horses
• A small selection of Nature Poems: Hopkins, Windhover; Snyder, Above Pate Valley; Wendell Berry ( an interview); Mary Oliver Wild Geese

homework: Write a sapphic (or choose another topic)