ENG 107 w/ Dr. DaMaris B. Hill

    Good Morning,   I am writing to share an upcoming virtual interest session for the Gaines Fellowship Program. As a reminder, undergraduate students from all majors and academic colleges are encouraged to apply. Eligible candidates must have 2 years remaining at the University beginning in fall of 2022 to complete the curriculum.    VIRTUAL INFORMATION SESSION: Tuesday, December 7, 2021 at 3:00pm via Zoom:  REGISTRATION  LINK   The benefits of this undergraduate program include:   Small, seminar-style courses with outstanding faculty, based on a humanities theme An individualized senior project to be conducted with a small faculty committee An opportunity to engage meaningfully and intellectually with a small cohort  Ongoing community engagement initiatives including discussions with community leaders, visits to local landmarks, dinners, trivia nights, and more Access to the Gaines Center facilities, including a student lounge Financial support for travel and research opportunities

  If you would like to schedule a conference about your portfolio or digital reading, please email me. MONDAY, DEC 6  CLASS DAY  FOR QUESTIONS, PORTFOLIO INSIGHT, AND TECHNICAL ADVICE WEDNESDAY - DEC 8  DIGITAL WORK DAY  - Please work with classmates and others to record your reading and load the reading up to youtube or vimeo. Create  a link that leads to a 2-10 minute recording of you reading a portion of your original work.  You might find these resources helpful in learning how to record on your phone or tablet.  HOW TO CAPTURE AND RECORD AN IPHONE OR IPAD SCREEN VIDEO?        HOW TO RECORD A VIDEO OF YOUR SCREEN ON ANDROID How to Upload a Video to YouTube

  Consider the aforementioned.  Write about yourself or a someone you know very well.  Decide if you are going to write about them in context of your/their life's accomplishments, your/their practicality or your/their deviance.  Use one form from the previous  list of 50 forms  to enhance your writing.  Also incorporate  poetic devices . Remember each stanza is a room or scene, build something beautiful.  Think about our discussions of  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"  to inspire your exploration. 

  From   " List of 50 Poetic Forms for Poets"  By:   Robert Lee Brewer   |   August 4, 2014 Abstract (or Sound) Poetry . Abstract was a term used by Dame Edith Sitwell. Acrostic . A form for hidden messages. Alphabet Poetry . Perfect back-to-school poetry. Anagrammatic Poetry . More fun with letters. The Blitz . 50-liner invented by Robert Keim. The Bop . Three stanzas and three refrains, developed by Afaa Michael Weaver. Bref Double . French quatorzain. Cascade . Variable length form invented by Udit Bhatia. Chant . If it works once, run it into the ground. Cinquain . Popular five-liner. Concrete Poems . Shapely poetry. Elegy . Song of sorrow or mourning. Epitaphs . Or tombstone poetics. The Fib . Fun form from Gregory K. Pincus. Found Poetry . Finders keepers, right? Ghazal . Couplets and a refrain. Golden Shovel . Terrance Hayes-invented, Gwendolyn Brooks-inspired. Gwawdodyn . Welsh poetic form. Haibun . Japanese form popularized by Matsuo Basho. Haiku . Popular Japanese f

  Where I'm From As Kentucky's 2015-2016 poet laureate, George Ella wants to collect a "Where I'm From" poem  from every county in Kentucky .  Kentucky’s ‘Where I’m From’: A Poetry of Place” is the central theme of a project that will touch all 120 of Kentucky’s counties. Find more information, and how to submit poems,  on the Kentucky Arts Council website .      http://www.georgeellalyon.com/where.html Where I'm From I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride. I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening, it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush the Dutch elm whose long-gone limbs I remember as if they were my own.  I'm from fudge and eyeglasses,           from Imogene and Alafair. I'm from the know-it-alls           and the pass-it-ons, from Perk up! and Pipe down! I'm from He restoreth my soul           with a cottonball lamb           and ten verses I can say myself.  I'm from Artemus and Billie

Chapter 10- Poetry Monday  Teaching Evaluations - please complete by December 5, 2021 Expectations for the rest of the semester  (Links to an external site.) " Where I'm From  (Links to an external site.) " Poetic Forms  (Links to an external site.) Chapter 10-Poetry 297-317 Formal and Free Verse Working with Sound The Poetic Line  Imagery, Connotation, and Metaphor Density and Intensity Finding the Poem key words to know in this chapter Homework: Compose 1-2 original poems and bring three copies of each poem into class for workshopping on Wednesday, December 1, 2021.  Wednesday - READ PRIOR TO CLASS Bring in 1-2 original poems and bring three copies of each poem into class for workshopping on Wednesday, December 1, 2021.  Be prepared to analyze your peers work in the context of poetic craft. Tombstone, Menu,  or Menace  (Links to an external site.)  - some poetic explorations Friday  revise the draft of your  Tombstone, Menu,  or Menace   (Links to an external site.) pie