Readings and Assignments for the Week of October 24 - October 30, 2005

Tuesday, October 25, 2005:

No reading assignments for today's class.

Important!! Don't forget to be prepared to read two of your own poems for today's In-Class Open-Mic Reading Day! Please be prepared to provide brief introductions for your poems, and make sure to take your time reading/performing them.

Thursday, October 27, 2005:

No reading assignments for today's class.

Exciting, latebreaking news: Tiffany Midge will be coming to visit our class today!

Looking ahead to next week, here are the guidelines for your first Writerly Immersion Paper, due Tuesday, November 1, 2005:

Your paper should compare and contrast two separate poetry/literary readings or literary events.

Your paper should consider both the quality and style of the written work, as well as the quality and style of the performance itself.

Your paper should be a minimum of 750 words (approximately three tyewritten/word-processed pages).

You are welcome to use outside sources if you wish, but if you do, please maks sure to cite them appropriately, and provide a bibliography using MLA style.

Finally, here is this week's memoir prompt, for blog posts due on Sunday, October 30, 2005:

Write down a story that you tell people that didn't really happen the way you usually tell it. So many times we have a good story we embellish with exaggerations, switch events for the sake of timing or humor, all kinds of things. Come on, it's fun! But after you write down the story you tell everybody, tell the same story in its bare-bones, no-frills, true version. Think about the reasons why you twisted the facts around.