ENGLISH 3120-01
JUNE 2-JULY 28, 1999
PROFESSOR ROBERT W. HILL
HUMANITIES 117
770-423-6346 (W)
770-427-6661 (H)
http://ksumail.kennesaw.edu/~rhill
OFFICE HOURS: MW 4-4:45 p.m., and by appointment
FOURTH RUN-OF-THE-TERM SYLLABUS (6/30/99)
Texts: David Bottoms's Armored Hearts
Memye Tucker's The Watchers
Jane Hirshfield's Nine Gates
Week One June 2: Introduction to workshop protocol ("frank" and "respectful"); qualities of poetry; formal and free verse
Week Two: June 7, 9: Sonnets and the villanelle; Armored Hearts; Gates 1
Week Three June 14, 16: Opening-line drafts from students (four lines to open sonnet or three lines to open villanelle); Workshop; The Watchers; Gates 2-3; Wednesday class cancelled for instructor's illness: hearty and thorough online student responses anticipated from all
Week Four June 21: Plans for next three classes, visiting professors/poets [ASSIGNMENT: FOR EACH OF THE THREE VISITORS, SEND BY E-MAIL OR NICENET MESSAGE TO DR. HILL YOUR WRITE-UP OF THREE MAIN POINTS NO LATER THAN 48 HOURS AFTER THE VISITOR'S APPEARANCE IN CLASS; E.G., FOR AUSTIN HUMMELL, RESPONSES ARE DUE NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 5 P.M.] ; workshop on drafts of opening lines + two students' formal poems offered for class discussion
Week Five June 28: Dr. David Bottoms, guest poet/professor; Workshop; Gates 6-7
Week Six July 7 (only on Wednesday this week); Workshop; Free-verse poem due at beginning of class; Gates 8-9
Week Seven July 12, 14: Workshop
Week Eight July 19, 21, 26: Workshop; Third poem due at beginning of class Wednesday, July 21
FINAL EXAMINATION: July 28, 5-7 p.m.
Grade proportions for written work: three poems = 50%; response writing, mostly online = 25% (continuous [weekly], thoughtful engagement with topics at hand, including classmates' responses); final examination = 25%