MANDATORY ATTENDANCE @ MEMOIR READING TONIGHT!! 3/30 WED.

Judith Nies will read tonight in the MLK room in Ellison at 7:30. Anyone who wants to meet the author and have dinner with her, come to Panera Bread in Vinnin Square at 6 p.m. There will be no class tomorrow. Conferences available all day in Meier Hall room 104 (Prof. Mulman's office).

Creative Writing Prompt #7

Write an poem that uses metaphor or extended metaphor to describe the act of writing.

Creative Writing Prompt #10

Read the poems listed under Tues. 3/8 on the syllabus. "Waiting for the Barbarians" is on this blog (scroll down, on left), Merwin's is about war and the extinction of animal species. Try to focus on one thing that enrages you which is happening in the world today and write a political poem.

Creative Writing Prompt #9

Write a poem about a place

My Dear Slacker Students

I am so excited to see Denielle's, Nicole's,Liz's and Jill's blogs!! Please connect with all of us and create one. Bring your URLS to class so that we can all follow each others progress and support each other! Put your new poems, thoughts and whatever on them.

Poetry Slam Thursday March 10th

Instead of meeting in our classroom on this date we will meet on the mezzanine level of Central Campus, just outside the library near the elevator to read and listen to our poems and have some coffee and breakfast together. Invite anyone you'd like.

Creative Writing Prompt #8

Write an Elegy. Think of how a traditional elegy mirror the three stages of  loss: first, there is a lament, where the speaker expresses grief and sorrow (2) then, there is praise and admiration of the idealized dead and (3) finally, there is consolation and solace.