WEEK 6: July 29 - Aug 2
Poet-in-Residence: ROBERT CORDING
Workshop: Title: "The Syntax of the Self"
Description: We will explore both anthology poems and participant poems, focusing on the voice of each poem and how "who" is speaking is shaped by syntax - the way the sentence is organized in relation to the poetic line. Technical discussion will be kept to a minimum; our objective is to discover both how poems play the sentence's organization against the unit of the line and how we can come to know ourselves and our own voices by attending to the voices created in the poems of others.
M-F 8:30-10:30 a.m., CLSC Alumni Hall
Prose Writer-in-Residence: STEPHEN COREY
Workshop: Title: "A World Wider Than 'I'"
Description: In recent decades, the essay has been silently redefined in most quarters to mean "the autobiographical exploration," but many of the greatest English-language essays - from Francis Bacon's "Of Truth" (1625) to George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" some three hundred years later - look beyond their authors' lives to things, places, people, and ideas. All essays must be filtered through a mind, but let us for this week filter the world rather than ourselves. We'll spend most of our time discussing the "other-focused" work you submit, but we'll also do a bit of in-class writing and look at some sentences and passages from your and my favorite "classic" essays.
M-F 1-3 p.m., CLSC Alumni Hall