Sequence/and/Fragment

Books for the Fall 2010 Workshop

Claudia Rankine, The End of the Alphabet
ISBN-10: 0802116345

Alicia Ostriker, The Volcano Sequence
ISBN-10: 0822957841

Seido Ray Ronci, The Skeleton of the Crow
ISBN-10: 1931337438

Rene Char, Selected Poems ed. Mary Ann Caws and Tina Jolas
ISBN-10: 0811211924

Rachel Zucker, The Last Clear Narrative
ISBN-10: 0978926226

Wendy S. Walters, The Longer I Wait, The More You Love Me
ISBN-10: 0978926226

Ed Roberson, Voices Cast Out to Call Us In
ISBN-10: 0877455104

Frank Bidart, In the Western Night
ISBN-10: 0374522715

Things to Consider:

Sequence/Fragment/Long Poem/Adaptation/Lyric/Experiment/Tradition/Image/Disputed/Unpopular/ Narrative/Disruption/Impressionistic/Embraced/Cross-Genre/Performance/Innovated/Plural/Found/Cinematic/Outlaw/Conventional/Cliché/Pedestrian/Failure/Oral/Said/Device

The website is a place where writers might find visual prompts, essays, and links of interest. Students are welcome to contribute to our collection of prompts, essays, or links at any time. "Older Posts" at the bottom of the Home page will take you to additional pages of prompts.

The workshop will accommodate all forms of poetic expression a writer is willing to submit to critique. While the workshop theme and prompts toward 'Sequence and Fragment' will hopefully inform some of the work we'll read, all work is welcome.

The reading list functions as an initial group of writers that a student might investigate during the Sequence and Fragment workshop. As a student, I would also suggest you familiarize yourself with the work of writers invited to read in our Reading Series, the schedule of which can be found each semester on the CU Department of English on-line calendar. Readings, events, and other activities of the Creative Writing program, students, and faculty will also be posted to the Creative Writing @ the University of Colorado Facebook page.

If you’ve read something interesting, feel free to bring it to class, perhaps, share copies. I’d like our workshop to be organic and so develop as we add readings, direct or redirect our writing and reading habits, and work toward a productive creative space which contributes to a diverse writing community.

We’ll do our best to understand the writer’s, or performer’s, point of view, intent or avoidance of intent. We'll do our best to understand voice, form, departure, and other constraints and liberalizations without personalizing the work as we might our own. This workshop is not intended to accommodate poetry that is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ … I mean for the workshop to function under the auspices of what works (for the poem and poet) and what doesn’t work.