Poetry Portfolio
- Revision of POEM
- Writer’s Memo: Share a reflection of your journey through poetry – your progress, process, questions you have of your own writing, goals that have arisen out of this experience, discoveries about what you prefer as a reader (the poem or poet that most influenced your writing), insights about what inspired your writing, if/how your idea(s) for what makes a good poem changed over the course of this unit, the most important things you’ve discovered about poetry, etc. (1-2 pages)
- Grade Proposal: consider the quality of work you put in throughout this unit (assignments, discussions, blog posts, workshops, peer review, attendance, etc.).
- Three (or more) poems reflecting your work this unit
Guidelines: Please include in your email subject: the assignment name (ie. Poetry Portfolio). Please attach your Revision & Memo & Grade Proposal & 3 additional poems in that order as a
single google doc or .docx (no pdfs accepted), with the file name as your first & last name and assignment name (ie. Stacie Cassarino, Poetry Portfolio). *You must also post your revised poem to our blog as a way of sharing your work with the class — I’ll create a space entitled POEM for this.
NO LATE PORTFOLIOS ACCEPTED WITHOUT APPROVED EXTENSION
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Optional: Poetry Revision Exercises:
- Note: these revision exercises will not be formally turned in, but my hope is that you will test the possibilities of your Story in unexpected ways, and perhaps discover new revisionary paths, or more clarity/confirmation about what does work in your first draft. Trying some of these out can lead to breakthroughs or deepened understandings. ——The energy of revision is the energy of creation and change, which is also the energy of destruction. —Maggie Anderson
- Rewrite the poem beginning with the last line of your poem.
- Change the voice of POV of your poem.
- Reduce your poem by half without compromising meaning or impact.
- Change the visual layout of the poem
- Rewrite the poem using longer lines / shorter lines / prose
- Change the form.
- Hidden Titles: Find the 5-10 most commonly used words in your writing this unit and use these words as “hidden” titles for individual poems. (Let the words instigate writing without being known, then eliminate them altogether in the end.)