Week 8 Logs:

 Monday February 25^th

.5 hours – researching Charles Bernstine.

2 hours – writing and posting seminar pass.

1 hour – spent time in sauna thinking about breath, body and journaling about sweat.

3.5 hour – writing term paper draft.

.5 hours – writing and editing poems.

.5 hours – reading.

Tuesday February 26th

2 hours – reading.

2 hours – derive. Walking through neighborhoods/downtown,

1 hour – journaling about the need for nature in the city whether on purpose or by natures own force, thoughts on Reverie chapter.

1 hour – reading/responding/joining seminar.

2 hour – working on term paper draft.

.5 hours – looking through Poetry anthology.

Wednesday February 27th

1.5 hours – journaling about the map as a mirror of the brian, ways of writing poetry with and on a map, and ideas for how to structure term paper.

1.5 hour – reading.

.5 hours – looking over e-alphabet

1 hour – writing and revising poems! (finally)

1 hour – writing Bachelardian reverie.

4 hours – working on term paper draft, reviewing journal entries.

Thursday February 28^th

5 hours – studio time. Printing and filming video for poetry observed.

2 hours – writing draft of term paper.

.5 hours – revising poems.

Friday March 1st

1 hour – reading poetry.

1 hour – writing term paper draft.

.5 hours – revising poems.

Saturday March 2nd

2.5 hours – working on term paper draft.

Sunday March 3rd

1 hour – messing with poetry observed video (trying to get it to show up in the right place)

6 hours – writing term paper draft.

Totals:

This week: 45.5

Cumulative total: 179.5

 Reading List:

The Poetics of Reverie – Bachelard.

The Molecular Gaze, Art in The Genetic Age – Suzanne Anker, Dorothy Nelkin.

Science Within Art – Rhodes.

Poetry, a Pocket Anthology – R. S. Gwynn

Monday February 18th

2.5 hours – working on seminar pass poem.

.5 hours – walking by the water and through the city.

.5 hours – journaling about how to find my body by removing the space around it, vagina monologs, echos of centuries of repression and oppression. (notes for poems)

2 hours – reading.

.5 hours – looking up names, books and definitions from my not-knowing-notebook.

1 hour – compulsively tweaking a poem, finishing up and posting my seminar pass.

Tuesday February 19th

1 hour – journaling about ghosts in the land, buildings covering up history, military torture techniques, and the loss or rediscover of self, empowerment, and being through the reclaiming of language.

1 hour – reading and responding to seminar passes.

2 hours – studio time (free writing).

2.5 hours – derive – wondering through different parts of town, free writing.

1 hour – reading.

Wednesday February 20th

1.5 hour – journaling about running into cliches and generalizations, developing awareness to understand my body in relation (or contrast) to its environment, making a to do list.

4 hours – reading interspersed with discussions and free writes on memories and reveries evoked from the former.

1.5 hours – writing and posting Bachelardian reveries.

1 hour – transcribing field study journal entries.

.5 hour – beginning term paper draft.

Thursday February 21st

.5 hours – journaling about where I see an other form of myself in nature within urban space.

4 hours – reading.

.5 hours – transcribing field study journal entries.

.5 hours – compiling field study poetry into one place.

.5 hours – reciting and editing poems.

2 hours – helped sort type at Sherwood Press.

Friday February 22nd

.5 hours – journaling about movement captured in a room and imagining the rain on my skin.

1 hour – transcribing journal entries.

2 hours – journaling and thinking about the line between helpful and harmful analyzation and questions of mybody. Creating an outline for term paper.

.5 hours – reading.

Saturday February 23rd

2 hours – writing field study paper draft.

Sunday February 24th

1 hours – journaling about stress, free write on the smell of violates in the wind.

1 hour – hepling facilitate a letterpress profficiency.

3.5 hours – working on field study paper draft.

.5 hours – researching poets from perloff (Charles Bernstien & George Oppen)

1.5 hours – reading.

Totals:

This week: 44.5 hours

Cumulative total: 134 hours

 Reading List:

Beyond The Body Proper, Reading The Anthropology of Material Life. – Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar.

The Poetics of Reverie – Bachelard.

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. – Joan Jacobs Brumberg.

Poetry A Pocket Anthology.

Reading In The Brain. – Stanislas Dehaene.

Week 6 logs:

 Monday February 11th

2 hours – Derive. Took descriptive notes and journaled about my surroundings, and what I was attracted to and why (notes for a poem!)

2 hours – yoga and peer-editing.

2 hours – working on anthology.

1.5 hours – working on seminar pass.

.5 hours – revising and posting poem.

1.5 hours – watching I Believe In Atlanta. A documentary done by a friend about the untold history of the city and its effect on her.

 Tuesday February 12th

4 hours – studio time (printing).

1.5 hours – reading/commenting on seminar passes. virtual seminar.

3 hours – reading.

.5 hours – working on anthology.

.5 hours – journaling about gender, when, where and how I switch gender “rolls”, becomeing more feminine or more masculine and the effects they have.

Wednesday February 13th

1.5 hours – reading

.5 hour – journaling on Reverie.

2 hours – Kallari Chocolate lecture and tasting.

1 hour – working on anthology.

1 hour – crafting journal entries and notes into poems.

1 hour – writing Bachelardian reverie.

 Thursday February 14th

5.5 hours – studio time (printing!)

.5 hours – journaling about my time spent in the studio, the relationship between body and machine, the anima and animus of letterpress.

.5 hours – reading.

 Friday February 15th

1 hour – journaling about confusion, negative emotions and obstacles.

.5 hour – scoping moodle/e-alphabet, clarifying anthology logistics.

1 hour – reading.

 Saturday February 16th

1 hour – reading.

 Sunday February 17th

2 hours – reading.

1.5 hour – journaling about the relationship of letters to body to thoughts to place/environment to traveling and ideas for term paper.

1.5 hours – starting seminar pass and researching poet from Perloff.

2.5 hours – vagina monologs!!

Totals:

This week: 43.5 hours

Cumulative total: 75 hours

 Reading List:

The Poetics of Reverie – Bachelard.

Beyond The Body Proper, Reading The Anthropology of Material Life. – Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar.

The Laugh Of Medusa – Hellen Cixous.

Reading In The Brain. – Stanislas Dehaene. 

The Book As A Container Of Consciousness – Author unknown. 

Monday February 4^th

.5 hours – read New York Times article. 


2 hours – yoga and peer-editing.

1.5 hours – wrote seminar pass.

.5 hours – worked on mid-quarter self evaluation.

Tuesday February 5th

1 hour – meeting about class anthology.

2.5 hours – derive – took notes on things I was drawn to/how environment effected my thoughts and movement.

.5 hours – reading seminar passes.

.5 hours – responded to two seminar passes.

1.5 hours – read

 Wednesday February 6^th

1 hour – meeting with Sarah.

.5 hours – Bachelardian Reverie.

1.5 hours – studio time – free write.

1 hour – reading

 Thursday February 7^th

2.5 hours – studio time (found some great info!)

2 hours – reading

3 hours – organizing type at Sherwood Press.

 Friday February 8^th

.5 hours – virtual seminar

.5 hours – free write reflecting on my body/buildings, creating prompts & constraints.

1 hour – reading

 Saturday February 9^th

*mental health day

Worked all day then saunaed.

 Sunday February 10^th

3.5 hours – reading

2.5 hours – looked up poet from Perloff, crafted the beginning of a poem, started Seminar Pass.

1.5 hours – journaling about my day and the struggle I had with what needed to get done.

 Totals

This week: 31.5 hours

Cumulative total: 31.5 hours

Reading List:

• The Poetics of Reverie – Gaston Bachelard
• Discussions in Contemporary Culture. – Hal Foster.
• Text in the Book Format: Space of the Written Word. – Author unknown.
• A Basis of Concrete Poetry – Rosmarie Waldrop.
• Beyond The Body Proper, Reading The Anthropology of Material Life. – Margaret Lock and Judith Farquhar.
• Reading In The Brain. – Stanislas Dehaene.
• Unoriginal Genius. – Marjorie Perloff.