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{ Poetry Now An Arts Now/WRX course / Jessica Bozek Slide 2 Amaranth Borsuk, Handiwork (2012) Eduardo C. Corral, Slow Lightning (2012) Idra Novey, Exit, Civilian (2012) Anna Ross, If a Storm (2013) Zachary Schomburg, Fjords vol. 1 (2012) Recent books Slide 3 Students read & responded to poems, book reviews, author interviews/statements of poetics in current issues of online poetry journals Created a context for final class project, a journal issue Recent journal issues Slide 4 The students own creative & critical writings were prominent texts in the class Process: Drafts, reflections, revisions Product: Final journal issue Recent writing Slide 5 Authors visited our class, both in-person and virtually, via Google Hangout Julie Joosten, a Toronto poet in town for a reading, visited gave students a writing assignment related to a process she used in writing her new book Visits Slide 6 Anna Ross Slide 7 Janaka Stucky & Zach Schomburg Slide 8 Blog (for daily assignments, reading responses, in-class writing) Blog Online journals (e.g., Jellyfish, Sink) JellyfishSinkJellyfishSink GetSimple, open-source CMS GetSimple The First Experiment The First Experiment The First ExperimentTechnology Slide 9 Poetry is happening now Students required to attend 2 readings/performances outside of class Students can be active participants in the poetry community, as readers, writers, live audience, contributors to journals Community