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ration for publication in short vine but we wanted to provide an opportunity for students who missed that deadline to send their work our way please send up to three poems or one short story up to 25 pages in length to shortvine2011 gmail com along with a brief bio no later than 5 00 pm this friday work should be sent as attachments in word or rich text format with your name and title in the filename please indicate in the subject line whether your submission is poetry or fiction all uc undergraduates are welcome to submit work to short vine regardless of their major those students who were published in our online winter issue are welcome to submit to our spring print issue as well we look forward to seeing your work the short vine editorial team http shortvinejournal com posted by michael s hennessey at 12 54 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday may 16 2011 writing prompt 9 the sum of its parts we ve talked about this several times over the course of the term but since it came up again in friday s class i thought it might be worth making a prompt out of the idea of fragmentation and linking at the heart of this technique is the notion that what we re trying to say in a poem doesn t have to be accomplished in one continuous train of thought much like the way in which line and stanza breaks can create a necessary pause or add emphasis breaking your poem into discreet sections can give you the room to make dramatic shifts in perspective or characterization or let a particularly resonant idea ring out in your readers minds this technique is most effective when the connection between the fragments isn t explicitly clear leaving it to your reader to bridge those gaps or if you choose to work around a topic in an abstract fashion considering different facets of the idea at hand with each section one well known poem written in this form is wallace stevens thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird i among twenty snowy mountains the only moving thing was the eye of the blackbird ii i was of three minds like a tree in which there are three blackbirds iii the blackbird whirled in the autumn winds it was a small part of the pantomime iv a man and a woman are one a man and a woman and a blackbird are one v i do not know which to prefer the beauty of inflections or the beauty of innuendoes the blackbird whistling or just after vi icicles filled the long window with barbaric glass the shadow of the blackbird crossed it to and fro the mood traced in the shadow an indecipherable cause vii o thin men of haddam why do you imagine golden birds do you not see how the blackbird walks around the feet of the women about you viii i know noble accents and lucid inescapable rhythms but i know too that the blackbird is involved in what i know ix when the blackbird flew out of sight it marked the edge of one of many circles x at the sight of blackbirds flying in a green light even the bawds of euphony would cry out sharply xi he rode over connecticut in a glass coach once a fear pierced him in that he mistook the shadow of his equipage for blackbirds xii the river is moving the blackbird must be flying xiii it was evening all afternoon it was snowing and it was going to snow the blackbird sat in the cedar limbs while stevens poem doesn t necessarily add up to a clear and definitive picture he does approach his topic from many unique angles a more contemporary master of this style is rae armantrout who works in a minimalist style frequently combining seemingly disconnected segments to create a wide ranging poetic picture here s her poem the subject the subject it s as if we ve just been turned human in order to learn that the beetle we ve caught and are now devouring is our elder brother and that we are a young prince i was just going to click on phoebe is changed into a mermaid tomorrow when suddenly it all changed into the image of a citizen watch if each moment is in love with its image in the mirror of adjacent moments as if matter stuttered then of course we re restless what is a surface we ask trying to change the subject here are a few more examples of her work fact passage and apartment while this technique works well in a more abstract fashion it can also quite successfully be used in a narrative fashion with each section serving as a micro chapter of sorts two great examples of this are allen ginsberg s after lalon and richard brautigan s the galilee hitchhiker armed with these examples i d like you to try to write a poem that works in a similar fashion using fragmentation and linking to great poetic effect posted by michael s hennessey at 10 06 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday may 9 2011 writing prompt 8 the o hara esque walk poem the late frank o hara a key member of the new york school s first generation had an all too brief poetic career he was tragically killed in a freak accident in 1966 and yet he left behind a prodigious body of work largely because he successfully integrated his writing habits into his daily life creating a characteristic style here s the poet s tongue in cheek back cover blurb to one of his best known collections lunch poems often this poet strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a manhattan noon has paused at a sample olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations or pondering more deeply has withdrawn to a darkened ware or firehouse to limn his computed misunderstandings of the eternal questions of life coexistence and depth while never forgetting to eat lunch his favorite meal o hara s peripatetic style is often shorthanded as i do this i do that and one of his best known poems in this style is the day lady died written upon hearing news of the passing of jazz singer billie holiday also known as lady day the day lady died it is 12 20 in new york a friday three days after bastille day yes it is 1959 and i go get a shoeshine because i will get off the 4 19 in easthampton at 7 15 and then go straight to dinner and i don t know the people who will feed me i walk up the muggy street beginning to sun and have a hamburger and a malted and buy an ugly new world writing to see what the poets in ghana are doing these days i go on to the bank and miss stillwagon first name linda i once heard doesn t even look up my balance for once in her life and in the golden griffin i get a little verlaine for patsy with drawings by bonnard although i do think of hesiod trans richmond lattimore or brendan behan s new play or le balcon or les nègres of genet but i don t i stick with verlaine after practically going to sleep with quandariness and for mike i just stroll into the park lane liquor store and ask for a bottle of strega and then i go back where i came from to 6th avenue and the tobacconist in the ziegfeld theatre and casually ask for a carton of gauloises and a carton of picayunes and a new york post with her face on it and i am sweating a lot by now and thinking of leaning on the john door in the 5 spot while she whispered a song along the keyboard to mal waldron and everyone and i stopped breathing a few other favorites written in this style are a step away from them and personal poem and you can see traces of this style in the work of ted berrigan particularly in poems like today in ann arbor and in a very compact form 10 things i do every day 10 things i do every day wake up smoke pot see the cat love my wife think of frank eat lunch make noises sing songs go out dig the streets go home for dinner read the post make pee pee two kids grin read books see my friends get pissed off have a pepsi disappear part of the beauty of this style is its all inclusiveness this form admits all occurrences and emotions and it s list like order is set up beautifully for experiments with flow pacing repetition etc the everyday events of your life can have great poetic resonance and the people who surround you can be just as interesting in their humanness as grand heroic figures the trick in part is finding the aesthetic in the mundane and letting your ear and eye guide you through your world finding the interesting elements the names sounds sights and bits of speech that will make your poem feel both true to your life but also engaging to your reader so for this week i d like you to play around a little with this form finding poetry in your daily routines use the o hara and berrigan poems as inspirations but feel free to adapt the form however you see fit to match your own needs posted by michael s hennessey at 9 59 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday may 6 2011 your final portfolios as mentioned at the start of the term you ll be expected to hand in a final portfolio at the end of the term this will include the following things revisions of 5 6 poems that you wrote this term either poems that were workshopped formally or poems that you wrote in response to our various prompts including both the original and revised versions along with a brief explanation a few sentences for each of what changes you made how workshop comments affected your alterations etc two 2 copies of your finished chapbook for me plus a copy for everyone else in the workshop so 20 copies altogether a final evaluation of your experience in our workshop details below however i encourage you to make a larger set say 40 50 copies so you can distribute them to friends and family while printing photocopying costs will increase in this case you won t really be spending more in terms of paper cover stock etc as you ll be buying a lot more than you ll use even if you split with a few classmates for your final evaluation i d like you to answer the following questions with your overall essay running to about 2 5 3 pages in length in what ways have your poetics or the way in which you think about poetry it s meaning its usefulness etc changed over the course of this workshop how would you describe your poetics now have your compositional habits changed at all due to this workshop and if so how what prompt s did you find most useful and which one s could you just not get into did this workshop live up to your expectations or perhaps exceed them what would you say were the most useful things that you ll take away from this experience also it goes without saying that you should be caught up with any and all workshop evaluations of your classmates and should have posted responses to at least 8 of the 10 workshop prompts i ve posted throughout the quarter i haven t yet decided whether we ll gather for one last class meeting during our allotted exam period or whether we ll have our last meeting on the final friday of the quarter i m leaning towards exam week as a it ll give you more time to finish everything and b we ll have more than 50 minutes to discuss your work if we go with the exam week meeting it will be from 12 00 2 00 on wednesday june 8th during this time everyone will distribute their chapbooks to the rest of the workshop and we ll spend a little time looking them over and talking about the process of making them we ll also spend some time summing up our experiences throughout the quarter guided by your responses to the self evaluation above because this is our last chance to meet i must insist that everyone is present for our final meeting and ready with everything that needs to be handed in and failing to do this will have negative consequences posted by michael s hennessey at 9 57 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest some useful information for your chapbooks in addition to thinking about the poems you ll select for your final portfolio and chapbook you should already be giving some thought to the design and binding for your chapbook hopefully the time we spend today going through a wide array of possible constructions sizes shapes and bindings will be useful and to help you as you more actively start planning here are a few how tos that might be of use a primer on japanese book sewing techniques taken from the boy scouts magazine boy s life wikibooks tutorial on zine making has a tremendous amount of worthwhile information in regards to binding possibilities layout etc poets and writers tutorial on how to make a saddle stitched chapbook aside from the content of your book you ll want to think about things like your cover materials art and layout the easiest and cheapest option is to buy what s called cover stock here s an example from staples office depot has some different options for colors it s a sturdy card stock that comes in a variety of colors from pastels and neutrals to brights and that will pass through either a photocopier or a printer without difficulty you might want to simply print in black on your covers or use a combination of stamps cut outs glued to the cover or embossing to create your design a variety images will print well over this sort of stock from simpler line drawings to photographs or you can go with a purely textual design an interesting compromise might be to make a design that uses only text but manipulated in an abstract way ron silliman s latest book the alphabet has a cover by geof huth that s constructed out of letters see at right you ll recall seeing this image as part of this week s concrete poetry prompt once your card stock comes out of the printer or copier it will likely have warped a little from the heat of the condenser so stack them waiting until they ve dried if the ink hasn t set and then put a few heavy books over them so they ll flatten out again another option that a number of students pursued last quarter was using wallpaper as cover stock then gluing a small title card onto the front cover you might also wish to use endpapers a single sheet of paper often colored patterned or textured that goes between the cover and the interior pages again browsing the aisles of your local office supply warehouse will give you some ideas for possibilities you might wish to use a complementary color the last book i made for example had bright red endpapers to liven up the ash grey covers or you can use vellum tracing paper some sort of patterned writing paper or hell cut sheets to fit out of the newspaper i ve always done layout for covers in powerpoint my favorite free and ubiquitous image compositor which allows you to easily resize images match them in terms of size create and manipulate text boxes etc when putting your covers together don t forget that the front will be the righthand side the back the left for interior layout here are a few recommendations first you can accomplish a lot in microsoft word setting the page layout as landscape and then creating two columns you have built in rulers to measure distance from edges and widths of text which is helpful be sure to leave enough breathing room around the edges of of the page as well as on the 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