Left-Handed Poems: February 1, 2018

Focus: How can your non-dominant hand unlock a new kind of poetry?

1. Warming up with a 3-minute refresher on expectations of poetry projects and papers

2. Meeting Academic Vocabulary: Set 4 (www.quizlet.com)

3. Enjoying the "left-handed" poems of Galvin and Levine

For Galvin:

• Find one line with unusual syntax or an unusual line break.  
• Try rewriting it in a way that makes it more "usual."  
• What did it lose?
• What makes this poem "left-handed"?

For Levine:

• Find three examples of enjambment that seem significant to you. 
• Why do you think he broke the lines there?  In other words, how does it emphasize or create meaning?
• What makes this poem "left-handed"?

4. Trying out your own left-handed poems (or right-handed if you're a lefty like me)

5. Reflecting on the process: How did writing with your non-dominant hand affect your writing? Did it affect your syntax? Line breaks? Other?

HW:
1. Please read through Chapter 20 for Friday and prepare a ticket. 

2. Start looking for a poetry paper/project poem; it must be from a different time period than the one you selected last semester. We will be briefly recapping the paper/project tomorrow in class. You will need your poem by Thursday, Feb 8 for your metacognitive.