English 140-141-142-143: Poetry Writing
A Repeatable Writers’ Workshop
Catalog Description
Practice in writing poetry. Students submit original poems for class discussion and learn to use the writers’ workshop to develop their work and skills as critics. Study, analyisis, and application of the fundamental tools, techniques, and forms of poetry: imagery, alliteration, assonance, simile, metaphor, rhyme, meter, traditional and free verse forms used by established and contemporary writers. Opportunity for publication and public readings. This course may be repeated four times.
We meet on hip-happening Thursday night, 7-9:50 in room 574.
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Ilya Kaminsky to Read at Grossmont College:
Thursday, October 21 at 7 p.m. in room 220.
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Fall 2010 Books
- Addonizio, Kim. Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within. New York: W.W. Norton, 2009.
- Kaminsky, Ilya. Dancing in Odessa. Dorset: Tupelo Press, 2004.
- Plath, Sylvia. The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath. New York: Harper/Perennial, 2008.
- Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Ed. Karen V. Kukil. New York: Anchor Books, 2000.
- Copies of individual poems for small group workshops.
- Access to a computer (available on campus). All poems must be typed, single-spaced.
Syllabus & Calendar
The Poetry Scene
- San Diego City College’s International Book Fair
- Poetix: Poetry in Southern California
- San Diego Writers, Ink
- Writer’s Symposium by the Sea
- Poets House NY
- Busboys and Poets D.C.
Publishing
- Acorn Review Literary Magazine
- Poets & Writers Grants and Awards
- Poet’s Market
- [clump] Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
- Poetry Foundation
- Duotrope’s Digest
Places for Poets Online
- Poets & Writers
- Fishouse: an audio archive of emerging poets
- Poets.org from the Academy of American Poets
- Library of Congress news, events, webcasts, prizes, fellowships, Poet Laureate Central
- Poetry Daily (I just signed up for their weekly e-mail)
- Poetry Magazine
- Americana: A Journal of Popular Culturehttp://www.americanpopularculture.com/journal/index.htm)
- ( Anti (http://anti-poetry.com)
- Big Bridge http://www.bigbridge.org/index2.htm
- BlazeVOX http://www.blazevox.org
- Born Magazine http://www.bornmagazine.org/
- Coal Hill Review (January 2009)
- Cortland Review www.cortlandreview.com/
- Diagram http://www.thediagram.com/
- DMQ Review http://www.dmqreview.com/
- Drunken Boat http://www.drunkenboat.com/db9/index.html
- Exquisite Corpse http://www.corpse.org/
- Failbetter http://www.failbetter.com/index.php
- Innisfree Poetry Journal http://www.authorme.com/innisfree.htm
- Jacket Magazine http://jacketmagazine.com/00/home.shtml
- Linebreak http://linebreak.org/about/
- Memorious http://www.memorious.org/
- Mezzo Cammin (formal) http://www.mezzocammin.com/
- Nantahala http://www.nantahalareview.org/
- No Tell Motel http://notellmotel.org/index.php
- The Pedestal www.thepedestalmagazine.com/index.php
- Poemeleon http://www.poemeleon.org/
- Poetz http://www.poetz.com/
- Qarrtsiluni http://qarrtsiluni.com/
- Rattle http://www.rattle.com/
- Real Poetik http://realpoetik.blogspot.com/
- Salt River Review http://www.poetserv.org/index.html
- SNReview http://www.snreview.org/
- Sweet: A Literary Confection http://www.sweetlit.com/
- Tarpaulin Sky http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/
- Tricycle http://www.tricycle.com/
- Umbrella www.umbrellajournal.com
- Unsplendid http://unsplendid.com/
- Valparaiso Poetry Review http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/
- Crossing Rivers Into Twilight (http://www.critjournal.com)
- Origami Condom (http://origamicondom.org/)
- Diagram (http://thediagram.com/)
- Otoliths (http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/)
- SimplyHaiku: A Quarterly Journal of Japanese Short Form Poetry (www.simplyhaiku.com)
- storySouth (www.storySouth.com)
- In Posse Review (http://www.inpossereview.com/)
- Eclectica (http://www.eclectica.org/)
- Autumn Sky (http://www.autumnskypoetry.com)
- Babel Fruit (http://web.mac.com/renkat/BABEL_FRUIT/)
- The Rose & Thorn Literary E-zine (http://www.theroseandthornezine.com/)
- Mannequin Envy (http://www.mannequinenvy.com/)
- The Centrifugal Eye (http://home.earthlink.net/~tinyviolet/thecentrifugaleyepoetryjournal/index.html)
- Barefoot Muse (http://www.barefootmuse.com/)
- Shit Creek Review (http://shitcreek.auszine.com/)
- The New Formalist (http://www.newformalistpress.com/tnf.html)
- Terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environmentshttp://www.terrain.org/)
- ( Valparaiso Poetry Review (http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/)
- Waccamaw (http://www.waccamawjournal.com/)
- La Petite Zine http://www.lapetitezine.org/
- Dead Mule http://www.deadmule.com/
- From the Fishouse http://fishousepoems.org/
- Wicked Alice http://sundress.net/wickedalice/
- The Mainichi Daily News Haiku in English http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/haiku/
- International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun Haikuist Network in English http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/index.html
- Soundzine http://www.soundzine.org/
- Valparaiso Poetry Review http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/
- Cutthroat http://www.cutthroatmag.com
- Studio http://www.studiopoetry.ca
- 14 by 14 http://www.14by14.com/
- Arsenic Lobster http://arseniclobster.magere.com/
- Ascent Aspirations Magazine http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/
- Triplopia http://www.triplopia.com
- Sweet: A Literary Confection http://www.sweetlit.com/
- NYC Big City Lit http://www.nycbigcitylit.com/
- Kenyon Review http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro/
- Poetry Foundation http://www.poetryfoundation.org/index.html
- Blue Print Review http://www.blueprintreview.de/
The Poet in Academia
- The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
- SDSU English Department
- Creative Writing at SDSU
- University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop
- Modern American Poetry
- Open Course at Yale University! Modern Poetry
