01/5/17

Welcome, Syllabus & Resources

This is the syllabus for the course. As it states in the course description, it is a work in progress and we will continue to shape and develop it as we progress through the course.

LLED 565C 2017 Course Syllabus

Here is the Cultural Fluency Language Assessment Tool for use in the creation of formal constraints for writing prompts.

CFLAT-1

This is the overview of language, a “Trilogistic Diagram” useful for considering how your work fits in the bigger picture of language use.

Click here for the link to my introduction to Poetic Inquiry III, edited by Sameshima, Fidyk, James, & Leggo (should be coming out this year. Some of the authors in this edited volume are also in our class!)

James intro PI 3

Here is a link to the reading which I’d scheduled for March 02. If you have a chance to look it over it’s short, and focused on a short history of West Coast Canadian spoken word of the 1990s

James_Poetic Terrorism

Here is a collection of event poems from an anthology by Jerome Rothenberg titled Technicians of the sacred: A range of poetries from Africa, Asia, & Oceania. You may complete the third (final) assignment for this course by creating an event poem. You may choose to do the final assignment as it is specified on the course syllabus (with a media focus). You may also choose to do a media version of the event poem. Please note that these examples are examples only. The event poem you create should be relevant to your world, to poetic “events” that you perceive as being useful to, or worthwhile to your own world. It is neither expected nor desired that we appropriate the kinds of events that are represented in this collection. The event poem is a loosely defined subgenre, and like poetry itself, it belongs to all people.

TotS Event Poems

04/12/17

Power Event Poem

Power Event Poem

Sandra Filippelli

• Turn the power back on yourself. Do not wait for Hydro to do it for you.
This feat will require sublime effort. Do not call a man.
• Solicit the full moon for light. Disregard your dead flashlight.
• Draw in extra light from the stars. Embellish your horoscope.
• Breathe deeply to generate warmth. Huddle inside a down sleeping bag.
• Sing Bob Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind at the top of your lungs. You will blow heat around the room.
• Visualize yourself running to the finish line of a marathon. You will sweat profusely.
• Pray for dawn to come prematurely.
• Plan a winter business meeting down to the wardrobe choice, including down outer garments. No sense not being ready for work tomorrow.
• Imagine you are eating dark chocolate while drinking piping hot ginger tea.
• Spice up your visualization with a trace of cumin spice.
• Think of something that enrages you until your face burns crimson.
• Teleport your thoughts to a sunbaked equatorial landscape. Imagine creeping under a mosquito net.
• Trace a trans-global cycling route and calculate the funds needed to complete it. Make a mental note of when you will embark on this trip.
• Harness your mental strength. Remember the force within you.
• Forget that you are in a power outage. The moon will guide you.
• Declare this power event a non-emergency.

04/12/17

Power Outage Un/Event

Power Outage Un/Event

Sandra Filippelli

In the un/event of a power failure, take the following calculated steps to ensure that you are unprepared.
• Throw out all new and partially used candles: fear igniting a fire or illuminating darkness.
• Pay your hydro bill two months ahead to avoid neglect of electrical utilities. You will wish you had the funds to eat locally when your stove shuts down.
• Allow your flashlight batteries to linger until the gadgets’ lights dim.
• Ride the elevator Dr. Strangelove retro.
• Forget to stock up on canned tuna and salmon.
• Misplace the can opener (a variant on the above entry).
• Neglect to have a battery-operated radio. You might have trouble hearing in the darkness anyway.
• Use up your cellphone data (a variant on the above entry).
• Don’t use your laptop or tablet battery to write emails to people who can’t get the electricity back on for you.
• Determine not to call anyone on your land line, which you retain for emergency (a variant on the above entry).
• If you can’t fall asleep, consider other options.
• Sit in blackout.
• Breathe.
• Let all thoughts go.
• Attune to sounds, such as multiple wailing sirens.
• Let sounds drift away.
• Inhale softly.
• Exhale gently.
• Forget about sleep. Forget about work.
• Release all issues.
• Declare this power outage a non-emergency event.

04/6/17

Matthew’s event poems

Summer Nights

  1. When a twinkling blanket covers the night sky, grab your friends, some towels, a bottle of tequila and red solos.
  2. Head to the sand-filled pebbly shore.
  3. As you stroll near your destination, turn off your lights that dim the path. Slowly step and follow the tones of the rolling waves.
  4. Toss off your flip-flops. Crunch the cool sand and pebbles between your toes.
  5. Slide down your trunks and toss them close to your soles.
  6. Focus on each other’s sounds, footsteps, and breathing to gather near.
  7. Pour an ounce…maybe two
  8. Arriba—Abajo—Al Centro—Pa’ Dentro!
  9. Run, run, run! Pam An into the water. Go, go, go! No thinking, nor stopping until you’re all the way in.
  10. Tread close together and Listen. Listen to the silence. Listen to the treading. Listen to the night. Listen.

 

No Assembly Required

  1. Put on a bright Yellow polo shirt and blue jeans.
  2. Head over to your local Furniture-assembly Warehouse
  3. Make your way through the showroom and become acquainted with your surroundings.
  4. Look busy until the first person asks a question. Be startled, but then polite and respond with confident, yet confusing directions that may or may not lead them to what they are looking for.
  5. Now that you have talked to a customer, pick a display—any display. Start rearranging it the way you want it to look.
  6. Arrange it like confident designer—be inspired, Kim Cattrall Mannequin Feel free to ask customers for advice in the process.
  7. If an employee interrupts your creative designing, comment that you are figuring out how these pieces will look in your space—better than buying it and returning it.
  8. If he/she questions you about your clothes, comment about what they are wearing and who are they to judge, they are wearing the same thing. Yellow and blue look great together.
  9. Have fun arranging your new space; take a picture of you in it for social media.

Before you leave make sure you stop to get a ice-cream cone or splurge and get a Lingonberry Sundae. Remind them of your staff

03/30/17

Event Poem by Janice

Contemplating Water in 10 Steps

  1. Enter Orchard Garden
  2. Take a deep breath in through your nose
  3. Exhale through you mouth
  4. Roam until you find a water source
  5. Play with the source that water may move
  6. Get wet
  7. Listen with your eyes closed
  8. Open your eyes, look down.
  9. Sing to the birds
  10. Walk until you stop caring about being wet.
03/30/17

A first-family-holiday-as-a-PhD-student event

  1. Do NOT use the following words:
    1. Discourse
    2. Hegemony
    3. Subjectivity
    4. Problematic
    5. “Post”- anything
  2. Expect furrowed brows when discussing your research.
  3. “Oh! You have so much time to work out now!” Smile tightly. At least that’s tight.
  4. Remind: no, it’s not teachers college, that was eight years ago, remember?
  5. Assure that you’re not going to be a stay at home mom now. You’re not even pregnant.
  6. Go to the basement. Wear thick socks. Look through old journals. Remember everything you always wanted for yourself. This is part of that.
  7. Doze. Read. Try The girl who was Saturday night (2014).
  8. Feed the dog too many treats. Walk her in the woods around 4pm, right when the light gives you sideways glances through the pines.
  9. Let yourself be driven through your hometown like you’re 14 again. Let the adults talk. Lean against the cold window. Listen to the radio. Pretend to be in the music video.
  10. On the plane ride home, open the meditation app you downloaded while waiting in the Zone 4 line. Listen to “Silk Waves” for “reduced anxiety.” Quickly switch to Robert Johnson.