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FINAL EXAMS:
2305-11: Monday, December 9th. Essays Due by 10:00 am in my office, room 456.
2305-12: Friday, December 6th. Essays Due by 1:00 pm in my office, room 456.
For 11/14:
Essay 4 Draft Due
For 11/12:
Response 9 Due
For 11/5:
Response 8 Due
For 10/31:
Essay 3 Due
You may cover the following poems for essay 3:
Evie Shockley, “improper(ty) behavior,”
“where you are planted,” “owed to shirley chisolm”
Marcus Wicker, “Love Letter to Ru Paul,” “Love Letter to Justin
Timberlake*,” “Love Letter to Pam Grier,” “Love Letter to Flavor Flav,” "Love Letter to Dave Chapelle*"
Gloria
AnzaldĂșa, “We Call Them Greasers,”“Cervicide,*” “horse”
http://devlinpix.com/blog
"Money"-Beau Sia
"Asian Men are Hung like Horses"-Beau Sia
"Tube"-Austin Slam Poetry Competition Team (group poem)
"What Teachers Make"-Taylor Mali
"Untimely Meditations"- Saul Williams
"For These are a Few of My Favorite Che's"- Daniel Garcia Ordaz (Poet Mariachi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enVhQweFKCE
"To the Pretty Girl in the Other Checkout Lane Whose Name I Don't Know"- Daniel Garcia Ordaz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgjXuWtVyJQ&list=PL7B50FB33F73239C2
"Money"-Beau Sia
"Asian Men are Hung like Horses"-Beau Sia
"Tube"-Austin Slam Poetry Competition Team (group poem)
"What Teachers Make"-Taylor Mali
"Untimely Meditations"- Saul Williams
"For These are a Few of My Favorite Che's"- Daniel Garcia Ordaz (Poet Mariachi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enVhQweFKCE
"To the Pretty Girl in the Other Checkout Lane Whose Name I Don't Know"- Daniel Garcia Ordaz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgjXuWtVyJQ&list=PL7B50FB33F73239C2
Pat
Mora “Sonrisas,” "Elena," "Legal Alien" https://docs.google.com/file/d/0By46uWluiwz8ekV5bzFadnlSNFk/edit?usp=sharing
Sheryl Luna, Pity the Drowned Horses (Entire book)
For 10/22:
Response 7 due.
For 10/17:
Read the assigned poems. Pat Mora's "Elena" and "Legal Alien" can be found in the resources page as a PDF. Make sure to print these and bring them with you to class. "Cervicide" was copied and handed out to you last week.
For 10/15:
Response 6 due.
For 10/10:
Read assigned poems and pages from Handbook of Poetic Form.
For 10/8:
Essay 2 due.
For 10/3:
Continue discussion of The Business of Fancydancing.
For 10/1:
Essay 2 draft due.
*Do not write your draft over the following short stories: "Traveling," "Translated from the American," "Special Delivery," "Gravity."
For 9/26:
Response paper due.
For 9/24:
Read Sherman Alexie biography and browse the Coeur d'Alene tribal site found in the resources page.
For 9/19:
Listen to Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" available on the resources page.
***Essays Due. Bring a printed copy to class.
For 9/17:
Read assigned poems in Missing You, Metropolis.
For 9/12:
Print out the Tone Words PDF found in the resources page and bring it to class.
For 9/10:
Response paper due.
***Also, you may write your essay 1 draft over any poem in Missing You, Metropolis, even if we have not covered it yet.
For 9/5:
Bring response paper to class.
For 9/3:
Read assigned poems and selections. Be prepared for class discussion.
For 8/29:
Make sure you have read all the poems and assigned terminology.
*Read and print the interview with Maria Herrera-Sobek. Bring this with you to class.
Bring your response paper to class.
For 8/27:
The course syllabus is available to download in the resources page on this site.
**Download and print the "Poetry Handout" found in the resources page on this site.You will bring this to class everyday.