Assignments April 18

For class: SITE Santa Fe workshop and Lyric Essay Reading and Exercises

SITE Santa Fe rough drafts due in class

Bring TWO hard copies for in-class peer review. Email one digital copy in a Word Doc to Julia, as these will be edited for grammar/other issues and sent back to you for your final draft.

You will have peer-on-peer review of your pieces in class:

Length: 500 words (please contact me individually if you want to write a longer piece)
Parameters: A review, criticism or interview of one of the pieces from the show that makes use of the four elements of arts writing as discussed.
Final Drafts: Final drafts are due by email to me no later than the start of class on April 25. These should be error-free and will be published as part of our class gallery guide for SITE Santa Fe.

LYRIC ESSAY READING ASSIGNMENTS

Read for class:

ReadTell it SlantRead chapter 10:  “Playing with Form”

Read online: Seneca Review, On the Lyric Essay

Read (download) “Michael Martone’s Leftover Water” by Patrick Madden (Normal School)

Read: “The Pain Scale” by Eula Biss (Touchstone Anthology, page 28)

Read: “Son of Mr. Green Jeans” by Dinty Moore (Touchstone Anthology, page 389)

Review: “Mr. Plimpton’s Revenge,” a Google Maps essay, by Dinty Moore (also available at the bottom of this post)

Please remember, as we approach the end of the term, that our final class and final paper is on Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the Murderer. If you haven’t already, start reading!