May 6th

4 hours Reading Poetry and the of the Senses (Susan Stewart) and A Dirty Smell of Mangoes (Ernesto de Souza Pochito

2 hour Writing and Editing olfactory poems

May 7th

4.5 hours Creating poems

2 hours reading assorted Proustian texts

May 8th

3 hours Writing/Journaling on smell and memory

3 hours Reading and researching “Proustian” work

Many 9th

2.5 hours Editing, formatting, revising poems from earlier in the week.

1.5 hours Journaling/creating poems around scent

2.5 hours Reading de Souza Pochito

May 10th

2 hours Reading de Souza Pochito

2.5 hours Creating poems, editing poems

1 hour Editing Cento poem from class week 5 (Tuesday), piecing together bits for a Cento from My Poets

May 11th

2.5 hours sifting through pictures from childhood and writing down scents associated with memories

3 hours Reading online articles about Marcel Proust, researching Proust

May 12th

2 hours Writing/Editing poems

2 hours Journaling for my Midnight Chapter

1.5 hours Reading Proustian texts

1.5 hours Reading (re-reading) Susan Stewart

Totals

This week: 40 hours

Cumulative total: 40 hours

Reading List:

Poetry and the Fate of the Senses

Remembrance of things past

A dirty smell of mangoes

Proust was a Neuroscientist