Friday Assignments.

 Next Class: 

Class #8 Friday, Feb. 26   

Chapt. 10: The Future, Pgs. 480 – 499

Session 1: Chris

Session 2:  Linda  

  • “The Future” Nick Drake, pg. 499

Discussion Questions for Class #8

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Weekly Reading Assignments and Discussion Leaders 

 

Class #1, Friday, January 8

Chapt. 1: “Staying Human” Pgs. 22 – 43 

Session 1: Linda, Chris

  • Introductions
  • Website review
  • “Litany for Survival ” Audre Lorde, pg. 39

Session 2: Breakout Rooms; whole class discussion

  • "Gate A-4" Naomi Shihab Nye, pg. 39


Class #2, Friday, Jan. 15 

Chapt. 1: “Staying Human” Pgs. 44 – 65

Session 1: Chris  

  • “Conundrum” Stewart Conn, pg. 47
  • "Vanishing Point" Valerio Magrelli, pg. 48
  • “Recognition” Lawrence Sail, pg. 51

Session 2: Linda  

  •  “Self Portrait as a Creature of Numbers” Dzifa Benson, pg.52    
  • “A Contribution to Statistics” W. Szymborska, pg. 53.


Class #3, Friday, Jan. 22

Chapt. 2: Ten Zillion Things, Pgs. 68 – 89

Session 1: Debra Abeshaus

  • “Introductions" Moya Cannon, pg. 91
  • “Bread” Moya Cannon (To be posted)

Session 2:  Beatrice Swift 

  • “The Fountain” Denise Levertov, pg. 88

Session 3: Linda Shamoon

  • “Well Water” Randell Jarrell, pg. 86
  • “A Drink of Water” Seamus Heaney, pg. 87


Class #4, Friday, Jan. 29

Chapt. 2: Ten Zillion Things, Pgs. 89 – 110

Session 1: Michele Boyd

  • “Olives” A. E Stallings, pg. 91
  • “Refrigerator 1957” Thomas Lux, pg. 98

Session 2: Patricia Bisshopp. Selections from chapter 4:

  • Three poems to access here, download and print
    • “Having a Coke with You”; “Radio”; “My Heart”
  • These five poems from chapter 4 in our text
    • “The Day Lady Died” Frank O’Hara, pg. 200
    • “Poem” Simon Armitage, pg. 208  
    • “I Want to be Like Frank O'Hara” Martina Evans, pg. 209 -10. 
    • “Katy” Frank O’Hara, pg. 211
    • “Why I Am Not a Painter” Frank O’Hara, pg. 213 - 214.


Class #5, Friday, Feb. 5   

Chapt. 7: Interesting Times: pgs. 344 - 365

Session 1: Eleanor McCarthy

Session 2: Sally Barker


Class #6, Friday, Feb. 12

Chapt. 8:  Roots and Routes, Pgs. 368 – 393

Session 1: Wendy Salkind

  • “Minority” Imtiaz Dharker, pg. 394
  • “Home” Deryn Rees-Jones, pg. 368

Session 2: Beatrice Swift

  • "Refugees" Adam Zagajewski, pg. 401
  • "Checking Out Me History” John Agard, pgs. 389-391.

Session 3: Debra Abeshaus

  • "Dancing at Oakmead Road” Maura Dooley, pg. 369 
  • "Samurai Song” Robert Pinsky, pg. 26


Class #7, Friday, Feb. 19  

Chapt. 8:  Roots and Routes, Pgs. 394– 420

Session 1: Vivian Malloy

  • “Some People” Wisława Szymborska, pg. 402      
  • “The Moon Sucks up Our Grief”  Bejan Matur, pg. 404   

Session 2: Barry Marshall


Class #8 Friday, Feb. 26  

Chapt. 10: The Future, Pgs. 480 – 499

Session 1: Chris

  • “Still life with a map of the world outside this window” Ruth Padel, pg. 497
  • “Hands” Gerda Stevenson, pg. 493

Session 2:  Linda  

  • “The Future” Nick Drake, pg. 499





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