LIVING SYLLABUS

This is the living, breathing word as far as A399 goes.
You will check this space for instructions as to what
to do next, ongoing-ly, as this experiment in form and sense
expands and grows. Let's not call what you will do
assignments, though you need to do them as if they are
such. Let's call this your long poem-in-progress. Even
though it will contain more than words (but mostly words).

Each week's schedule of readings/writings (art-making)
will be posted every Friday between noon and 2 PM.
unless otherwise noted.

By exam week in May you will have a book-length (38-50 pp)
document.

Come on in. It will be insane.

I created this on 1/5/2010. We shall go on from here.

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Here are the dates during which the various books will be in use
(you will be reading them, etc., and bringing them to class). This is
all subject to change. Particularly since I tend to play around
in semi-obscure texts our bookstore seems to have trouble
locating. All readings could be subject to quizzing:

American Hybrid--1/11/2010--5/2010

Mistaking the Sea For Green Fields--1/11/2010--2/3/2010

Abstract Expressionism--1/18/2010--2/17/2010

Nocturnal Conspiracies--1/25/2010--1/27/2010; 3/24/2010--5/10

25 Under 25--3/3/10--5/10

Pop Art--3/30/10--5/10

The End of the West--2/10/10--5/10

At last report some are not in the bookstore. Note the
dates above.

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You will keep an ongoing (running) manuscript of poems (and
whatever else) that will be handed in at various times, randomly
so, basically, each poet keeps up. This manuscript will
be at all times maintained as a hard copy. You'll never know when
the WHOLE may be asked for. (We will log a little time in in a computer
lab). It's very important that you think of poetry as a stream
of expression--various, reflective of your various "selves," as well
as a record of different reactions to/against the art we look at,
experience . . .