January
Tuesday 19
Intro
Exercise (postcard)
January
Thursday 21
Discuss postcard Exercise
Reading (Metaphor: or, the Map—Team Four)
January
Tuesday 26
Assign Exercise (Ars Poetica)
Reading: Selected Poems (Pope, Dickenson, O'Hara—Team Four)
January
Thursday 28
Assign Exercise (I Remember)
Ars Poetica due (17 copies)
Reading ("No One's a Mystery," Deb Marquart, "This New Quiet," "Last Prom in Huron, S.D.," and "The Half-Life of the Note," Joe Brainard's "I Remember," Carolyn Forche, "The Colonel," Michael Ondaatje, from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid—Team Three)
February
Tuesday 2
Discuss Ars Poeticas
Readings (David Sedaris, "a plague of tics," Ray Carver, "Cathedral," Martone, "Contributor's Notes," Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"—Team Three)
Contemporary Authors Proposals Due by email (three authors)
February
Thursday 4
Discuss Exercise
Readings ("Deer", Rife; "Corson's Inlet", AR Ammons; "Dragonflies Mating", Robert Hass; "Coyote", Karen L. Anderson; "One Evening", William Stafford; "Ellen West", Frant Bidart—Team Two)
February
Tuesday 9
Readings (Barbara Hurd, "Wordwrack," Flannery O'Connor, "Greenleaf"—Team One)
Contemporary Author poem/story/essay Due
February
Thursday 11
Readings (Dybek, "Farwell," J. Annie Macleod, "A Very Short Story…," Ruland, "Ghost Problem," Kincaid, "Girl," Baxter, "The Cliff," Kafka, "Advocates"-Team Four)
Due: "I Remember"
February
Tuesday 16
Readings (Rick Bass, "Danger" and "Colter," Patrick Somerville, "Trouble"—Team Three)
Due: Dialogue Exercise
February
Thursday 18
No Class
February
Tuesday 23
Formal piece due
Author Presentation: 1 Gursharan B./ Toni Morrison
February
Thursday 25
Author Presentation:2 Arthur E./ Salman Rushdie
March
Tuesday 2
Author Presentation: 3 Jenny G./ Maya Angelou
Workshop: Joanne B. and Elysa M.- Team One
Due: Research Exercise
March
Thursday 4
Author Presentation: 4 Jason S./David Mitchell and 5 Andrew B./ Cormac McCarthy
Due: Point of View Exercise
March
Tuesday 9
Workshop: Sola O. and Jessica G.- Team Two
March
Thursday 11
Author Presentation: 7 Katherine B./ Pearl Cleage
Workshop: David J. and Arthur E.- Team Three
March
Tuesday 16
Spring Break
March
Thursday 18
Spring Break
March
Tuesday 23
Author Presentation: 8 Kyle M./ Junot Diaz
Workshop: Dania B. and Katie M.- Team Four
March
Thursday 25
Author Presentation: 9 Katie M./ Mary Oliver
Workshop: Katherine B. and Andrew B.- Team One
March
Tuesday 30
NO CLASS—Advising
April
Thursday 1
Exercise
Author Presentation: 10 Elysa M. / Tim O'Brien
Workshop: Kat V. and Kyle M.- Team Two
April
Tuesday 6
Author Presentation: 11 Sola O. / Firoozeh Dumas
Workshop: Jason S. and Gursharan B.- Team Three
April
Thursday 8
No Class
April
Sunday 11
Revision plan due (in body of email—not attached)
April
Tuesday 13
Exercise
Author Presentation: 12 David J. / David Galef
Workshop: Jenny G- Team 4
Read Lee K. Abbott's story "One of Star Wars, One of Doom"
April
Thursday 15
NO CLASS—Conferences
April
Tuesday 20
Exercise
Author Presentation: 13 Jessica G./ Billy Collins and Kat /V. David Sedaris
April
Thursday 22
Exercise
Author Presentation: 14 Dania B./ Julia Alvarez
April
Tuesday 27
Author Presentation: 15 Joanne B./ Dorris Lessing
April
Thursday 29
Class Reading
Final Portfolio