Day By Day Schedule
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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

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