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DIRECTIONS: Make a poem out of an article in a fashion magazine.

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DIRECTIONS:

Write a poem about itself,

AFTER Larry Levis, “The Poem You Asked For”

My poem would eat nothing.

I tried giving it water

but it said no,

worrying me.

Day after day,

I held it up to the light,

turning it over,

but it only pressed its lips

more tightly together.

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DIRECTIONS: Write a poem made out of orders.

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PIECES:

Still, by A.R. Ammons [see below.]

OPTIONAL ATTACHMENT:

JSTOR 1973 Interview with A.R. Ammons by D.I Grossvogel

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press

http://www.jstor.org/stable/464582

DIRECTIONS:

Choose one of the following assembly instructions:

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PIECES:

Giant Toad, by Elizabeth Bishop [see below.]

DIRECTIONS:

In this poem, Bishop writes from the perspective of a giant toad. She has other poems from the perspectives of giant crabs, and a snail. Write a poem about an unusual animal. Give it a voice that speaks to its readers.

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DIRECTIONS:

1) Write a poem about a subject or theme you cannot seem to shake.

AND/OR

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PIECES:

Carmel Point, by Robinson Jeffers [see below.]

DIRECTIONS:

Robinson Jeffers believed that “poetry’s function is to be an intensification of life, not a refuge from it. … It must be rhythmic, and must deal with permanent things, and must avoid affectation” (more…)