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PRWR 6470-01
Summer 2006
Professor Robert W. Hill
Office Hours in EB 117: . . . and by appointment.
Phone and voicemail: (770) 423-6346
E-mails:
rhill@kennesaw.edu
and rhill41@gmail.com and rhill@students.kennesaw.edu (always
send to at least two of these addresses)
RWH website at KSU: http://ksuweb.kennesaw.edu/~rhill
WebCT: http://courses.kennesaw.edu
Published Highlights: This course is basically a workshop in which students write poems and submit them for weekly discussion. Designed to encourage the novice, as well as to challenge the experienced poet, the course is designed to develop students’ skills and to widen their access to the possibilities of contemporary poetry. Our reading list includes Chad Davidson’s Consolation Miracle, Greg Fraser’s Strange Pietà, Kathryn Kirkpatrick’s Beyond Reason, Yusef Komunyakaa’s Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems, and John Frederick Nims’s Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry. Between class meetings, we will engage in online responses in WebCT and Nicenet. Student poets will produce a small portfolio of five to eight poems, as well as one 500-word book review of a book published no earlier than 2000. We will also discuss such explicitly professional matters as publishing (self- and otherwise), networking, grants, and literary arts administration.
Week One, June 6: Greg Fraser’s Strange Pietà
Week Two, June 13: Kathryn Kirkpatrick’s Beyond Reason; first poem to write:
villanelle
Week Three, June 20: Yusef
Komunyakaa’s Pleasure
Dome; second poem to write: based on one of Greg Fraser’s poems as a
structural (not subject-matter) model
Week Four, June 27:
Week Five, July 11: Ongoing,
read-it-forever-as-apprentice-poets:
John Frederick Nims’s Western Wind
Week Six, July 18: Workshop
Week Seven, July 25: Book review due; workshop
Week Eight, Imaginary date: Workshop:
portfolio with five to eight poems, as good as you can make them