Creative Writing Syllabus--Don Adams

Texts:
Nelson (Ed), Anthology of Modern American Poetry
Cassill (Ed.), The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction

Dates	Required Reading	Writing Due	Workshop
1/9	Poetry: Major Metaphors "The Fish," 124 "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," 127 "The Yachts," 192 "Evening Hawk," 376 "The Mango Tree," 407 "Dead Boy," 313 "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio," 891 "The Room of My Life," 924 "At Tikal," 782	none	none
1/16	Fiction: 1st Person Narrative Carver, 186 Welty, 1578	1st poem due 10-100 lines	none
1/23	Poetry: Confessional "Asphodel. . .," 194 "Questions of Travel," 637 "The Boy Died in My Alley," 777 "Stings," 980 "An Urban Convalescence," 835 "Howl," 848 "Daffy Duck in Hollywood," 901 "Henry’s Confession," 727 "Without Words," 1128	1st story due 4-8 pgs.	poems
1/30	Fiction: 3rd Person Narratives Munro, 1220 Chekhov, 237	2nd poem due 10-100 lines	stories
2/6	Poetry: Descriptive "The Mouth of the Hudson," 761 "Sea Rose," 234 "Photograph of the Girl," 1079 "Homage to Paul Cézanne," 1018 "Willowware Cup," 840 "Filling Station," 636 "Street Lamps in Early Spring," 529	2nd story due 4-8 pgs.	poems
2/13	Fiction: Confessional Tan, 1471 Hempel, 763	3rd poem due 10-100 lines	stories
2/20	Poetry: Narrative "Travels in North America," 709 "Ku Klux," 520 "Medusa," 379 "I sing of Olaf glad and big," 349 "Home Burial," 85 "Mr. Flood’s Party," 28 "On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane," 932 "The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter," 205 "A Step Away from Them," 828 "The Man-Moth," 633	3rd story due 4-8 pgs.	poems
2/27	Fiction: Experimental Borges, 128 Barthelme, 58	4th poem due 10-100 lines	stories
3/6	Poetry: Love/Relationship Poems "Quiet Evening," 1084 "This Woman," 733 "One Art," 647 "I Knew a Woman," 589 "Toward a Definition of Marriage," 797 "’To Speak of Woe That is in Marriage’," 755 "Bearded Oaks," 575 "The Love Poems of Marichiko," 562 "Episode of Hands," 387 "A Glimpse," 3	4th story due 4-8 pgs.	poems
3/13	SPRING BREAK
3/20	Fiction: Mythic / Magical Realism Márquez, 661 Hawthorne, 745	5th poem due 10-100 lines	stories
3/27	Poetry: Political Poems "Prisoners," 1143 "Rusia en 1931," 1075 "I Have Come to Claim Marilyn Monroe’s Body," 1068 "SOS," 997 "Bomb," 963 "What Were they Like?" 813 "Up Rising," 790 "Second Air Force," 715 "Let America Be America Again," 515	5th story due	poem
4/3	Fiction: Micro Munro, 1236 Kincaid, 925 Leavitt, 992 Hemingway, 757	6th poem due	stories
4/10	TBA	6^th story due	poems
4/17	TBA	none	stories
4/24	Folders Due
5/1	Folders Returned

Requirements:
1. Students must hand in all poems and stories on time unless receiving specific consent of the instructor beforehand. All poems and stories must be typed and double-spaced.

2. Students must bring enough copies for all members of the workshop, the instructor, and him/herself.

3. Students must complete a written critique of each poem or story to be workshopped and provide a copy of the written critique to both the author and the instructor at the class period in which the work is to be discussed.

4. Students must also produce a 200-word (about 1 double-spaced page) written response to one of the poems or stories assigned from the anthologies, to be handed to the instructor together with the copies of the written critiques at the beginning of each class period.

5. Students must hand in a folder with revisions of all creative work and representative samples of critiques and responses at the penultimate class meeting.

6. Students must complete all assignments before a grade for the course will be awarded.

A grade of "B" is assured if all assignments are fulfilled, to the instructor's satisfaction, in a timely fashion and if the student misses no more than two class periods.

Critiques and responses will be given either a check, check-plus, or check-minus. The sum of these checks will contribute to the student's final grade.