1. Poetry & The Line “The first major difference between prose and poetry is that prose is printed within the confines of margins, while poetry is written in lines that do not necessarily pay attention to margins, especially the right margin.” –Mary Oliver

2. Bellwork 18 April 2016 Put the following piece of prose into poetic lines; capitalize the beginning word of each line: Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain on this bleak hut, and solitude, and me remembering again that I shall die and neither hear the rain nor give it thanks for washing me cleaner than I have been since I was born into this solitude. Be prepared to discuss why you turned the line where you did.

3. Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me Remembering again that I shall die And neither hear the rain nor give it thanks For washing me cleaner than I have been Since I was born into this solitude. From “Rain” by Edward Thomas

4. Objective & Purpose Write a minimum 10 line free verse poem that follows a certain metrical line pattern. Include 1-2 variations. Work on the rhythm of language, breaking the line, and enjambment.

5. Verse “To Turn” Turning the line

6. Turning the Line Within (and thus) breaking a logical phrase April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. From “The Waste Land” by TS Eliot

7. Turning the Line Within (and thus) breaking a logical phrase The eager note on my door said “Call me, call me when you get in!” so I quickly threw a few tangerines into my overnight bag, straightened my eyelids and shoulders, and headed straight for the door. From “Poem” by Frank O’Hara

8. Turning the Line & Metrical Lines (THINK Syllables) Conclusion of a sentence or logical unit Pentameter (10 syllables) Forlorn the very word is like a bell… (John Keats, “To a Nightingale”) The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in… (Robert Frost, “Once by the Pacific”)

9. Turning the Line & Metrical Lines (THINK Syllables) Conclusion of a sentence or logical unit Tetrameter (8 syllables) I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills… (William Wordsworth, “I wandered Lonely as a Cloud”) Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though… (Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”)

10. Turning the Line & Metrical Lines (THINK Syllables) Conclusion of a sentence or logical unit Trimeter (6 syllables) The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. (Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”)

11. Turning the Line & Metrical Lines (THINK Syllables) Hexameter (12 syllables) Heptameter (14 syllables) Octameter (16 syllables) Greater than 10 syllables… I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, (Allen Ginsberg, “Howl”)

12. Variation You do not always know what I am feeling. Last night in the warm spring air while I was blazing my tirade against someone who doesn't interest me, it was love for you that set me afire, and isn't it odd? for in rooms full of strangers my most tender feelings writhe and bear the fruit of screaming. Put out your hand, isn't there an ashtray, suddenly, there? beside the bed? And someone you love enters the room and says wouldn't you like the eggs a little different today? And when they arrive they are just plain scrambled eggs and the warm weather is holding. “For Grace, After a Party” By Frank O’Hara

13. Enjambment  Play

14. Closure 18 April 2016 Put the following piece of prose into poetic lines; experiment with enjambment, spacing, and stanzas: Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again. Be prepared to discuss why you turned the line where you did.

15. Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown and white in trees, snows and skies of laughter always diminishing, less funny not just darker, not just grey. It may be the coldest day of the year, what does he think of that? I mean, what do I? And if I do, perhaps I am myself again.”

16. Poem #6 Write a minimum 10 line free verse poem that follows a certain metrical line pattern. Include 1-2 variations/use of enjambment. How do you come up with ideas for what to write about? Images Stream of Conscious Writing An Idea Prompts

17. BW 19 April 2016 “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” 1.Is this a story? 2.What do you need to have a story?

18. Objectives Analyze how main ideas develop and change in sample flash fiction pieces Analyze how complex characters develop and change in sample flash fiction pieces Write your own piece of flash fiction: 1 page; no more, no less.