Dear All,
FIRST – LECTURE NOTES FROM LAST TUESDAY ARE NOW ONLINE, JUST BELOW THIS POST – READ IN PREP FOR NEXT LECTURE, AS WE WILL CONTINUE WITH SITUATIONIST AND POST-SITUATIONIST POLITICAL POETRIES
Below is a schedule–subject to change–for the rest of our quarter. Milestones include: settling into groups, which will be announced on this blog and via email Monday night; drafting a proposal of what your collaborative group will be working on in response to the question of what performing the text can come to mean; handing in a final proposal once you have met with me for feedback; and finally, “performing” your work–which must include both poetic writing and be a ‘live’ event–during weeks 9 and 10.
Note that this Saturday we are, because so many would like to attend the Arts Walk Procession, meeting at PRECISELY 6pm-8pm, and before that performing the bus poem (email is being crafted now).
Also note that there are a few special events here. There are two guest artists coming to work with our program and give evening readings–as part of the ongoing literary-radical politics series, PRESS. Both are amazing poet activists. AND there are some steps to our fire ritual that we will need volunteers for. And finally we will have an end of quarter poetry reading & get-together, a chance to celebrate as well as hear one-another’s individual works.
Please read this, and look out for that email from your peers. And please be on time Saturday once you are back from downtown.
Solidarity,
David
ps: some of you are woefully behind on either a) work due to me such as 2pp written responses to readings and lecture, or b) attendance. If you are not placed by me into a group when the list is put up, this means I am worried about your credit situation, hence, your ability to catch up enough to be able to collaborate thoroughly and intently with your peers. So, if you don’t see your name on the list once it is published here and over email, contact me.
Schedule: Writing: Guerilla Poetry, Poets Theater, & The Politics of Language
Subject to Change
* = note special program scheduling
Sat week 4 – bus poem 4-6, be on time to class 6-8 (groups work on a) manifesting Kocik, b) inventing a derive, all work to be done on derive by the following Tuesday
Mon Night, week 5: groups announced
Tues week 5 – lecture on Ranciere, deriving, situationism, share some derives from groups at beginning
*Weds, week 5 – proposal form (questions about your projects) will go online (on the blog)
Thursday week 5 – students brainstorm whole session on their projects; directions and prep for fire ritual
*Sat week 5 – 5-8pm students work towards developing a proposal
*Sat week 5 – 8-9pm fire ritual
*Sunday Morning – collect ash (need 3 volunteers)
!–REMEMBER: YOU SHOULD BE FINDING 2 HOURS OR SO IN HERE AND WEEKLY OUTSIDE OF CLASS TO MEET AS GROUP–!
Tuesday week 6 – PROPOSAL DRAFTS DUE (4-7 pp double spaced prior to class as email attachment, tho most of it should be done–just will need fleshing out): lecture on ritual, the abject, and performativity, distribute ash.
Thurs. week 6 – share experiences with ritual, share writing about it, then break into groups and do more “rehearsing” (working on collaborative performative poetry); first group meetings with me
Sat week 6 – FINAL PROPOSALS DUE PRIOR TO CLASS (email attachment, 5-8pp double spaced), more rehearsing; groups meet with me
Thurs & Sat, weeks 7 & 8 more rehearsal, meetings with me – some seminar work will still happen on Thursdays
Thurs week 9 BEGIN PERFORMANCES
Sat week 9 PERFORMANCES
Tues week 10 - FINISH PERFORMANCES
*Weds week 10 - program poetry reading & get-together (David’s house)
NOTE: (trading Sat for Weds, as Sat is when David’s semester at Bard College starts).
Sunday week 10 – critical essays on some theme/ideas relating to performative poetries (poets theater, guerilla poetry) & political art as relates to 1 peer performance - DUE BY MIDNIGHT SUN (3-5pp double spaced, SENT AS EMAIL ATTACHMENT TO DAVID & to group members on whose work you’ve written (you email the piece to 4-5 people, in other words).
EVAL WEEK: David will:
1) meet with groups and provide group feedback;
2) get written feedback on final essays by end of eval week;
3) get written evaluations, including thorough discussion on your final collaborative pieces, as well as individual poetic contributions, back to individual members of the program by end of eval week.
SPECIAL EVENTS for our PROGRAM:
May 13: PRESS EVENT, special reader, poet & activist Cara Benson (time/location TBA)
May 27: PRESS EVENT, special reader, poet & curator of Spare Room Series, David Abel