Writing Day!

I am going to give you some choices today. If you don't like the choices, you may come up with your own task, just post a response so I know what you are doing.

Option One: Response Poetry
Choose a new contemporary poem and explore his/her work.
Find three poems and write your own poems in response. There are many ways to write response poetry. It can be conversational or it can be your own take on the author's subject/topic.

Option Two: Poetry Cycle
Consider some characters in your own life, imagined characters, or actual historical characters. Imagine the significant chronological dates in their lives--high points and low points. consider how to construct a series of poems that tell a story (narrative poetry) and explore these key moments and occasions.
Poems can, of course, be narrative or lyric, but remember that the overall cycle is a narrative and must tell a story of a life or lives although we only see "fragments" or moments/snapshots.

Option Three: Memory Writing
Make a list of the most memorable events in your life. Some of them will be large- a death, a breakup, some goal you finally accomplished. But list the small things, too, things you've always remembered as particularly special and important in some way.
When you're finished, you should have a list of subjects for poems that could take you years to write.
Write a couple of poems about one or more of the events you listed.

My goal is for each of you to write a series of poems that you are invested in. Try to find something that will give you a spark and motivate you. I would like you to have 2-3 new poems for class on Friday. This is the first homework assignment for the new marking period.