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Creative Writing Course materials

 

 

 

Spring 2007

Eng 340: Advanced Creative Writing Poetry TR 2-3:15 p.m. Candelaria 0065

ENG 639: Poetry Seminar and Workshop T 6-9 p.m. Ross 2260

Life of the Mind 288: Contemporary Arts Connections | Student BIO Page

 

 

English 497 Independent Study online

English 340 Independent Study is a tutorial that you complete at your own speed, up to 12-months long, through Extended Studies. (Sample syllabus.) [ongoing tutorials available through Extended Studies: call (970) 351-2944 or (303) 637-4320 or (800) 232-1749.]

 

 

 

 

Past Syllabi

Spring 2006

English 236:008 Asian American Literature MWF 2:30-3:20 p.m. [03/31/2006]

Mind 288: Contemporary Arts Connections [updated 04/19/2006]

Mind 288 Student Bios

 

English 440: Literary/Arts magazine editing and production practicum (taught voluntarily as a tutorial in Spring 2003)

Syllabi for Fall 2005

English 441: modernism and postmodernism in poetry (a new offering updated 10/26)

English 131 | 131 schedule of assignments (updated 11/01/05) | English 131 Course materials

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course materials for Creative Writing poetry/poetics/prose

Basics of meter (a PDF file that requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Some terms for poetics

Red Flags (handout)

Notes on the experiences of "truth" and "inspiration"

Notes on why it is wrong to write in an antiquated style...

Some thoughts on finding your voice and the terror there...

Sample Creative Writing HW Logs (Kinnell & Olds)

 

Workshop Exercises

Describing the moment right after a life-altering event | Printable PDF version | Printable Word Version

Dick for a Day/Jane for a Day

The Freewriting Game

Persona Creation Exercise

Starting from Scratches | Printable PDF version | Printable Word version

Still Life with objects painted with (or seen through) emotions...

Synesthesia Writing Exercise and Public Dreaming Variation [Printable PDF version | Printable Word Version]

The Voice of Authority

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course materials for English 131

Basics of meter (a PDF file that requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

Creative Writing Alternatives for HW Logs

Sample HW logs

Poetry of William Blake

Poetry of William Wordsworth

Poetry of Coleridge and Keats

Poetry of Yeats Eliot & Questions