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English 313: Creative Writing
Spring 2007

David Wright


Assignment Schedule

Coming Soon

Exercises and Excursions for Faithful Writers


Useful Stuff
Poetry
Formal Poetry (handout)
    --Sonnet Central
    --Pantoums
Modern American Poetry
 Scott Cairns
Denise Levertov
Levertov's "On the Function of the Line"
A Month's Worth of Poetic Forms
"A Few Worries About Being a Poet"
"Poetry as Argued Seduction"
W. Stevens, "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"
Raymond Carver's "Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year"
Julia Kasdorf
A Good Selection of Christian Poets
Rilke's "Letters to a Young Poet"

Fiction
Elements of Fiction
Narrative and Meaning
Claire Davis, "Labors of the Heart"
George Orner, "Raft"
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies
Creative Non-Fiction

Faith and Writing
Christianity and the Literary Imagination
A List of Christian Poets
Manifestos

Ekphrasis
Painting & Poems
Chicago's Art Institute

Folk Tales/Midrash
D. L. Ashliman's Collection of Electronic Texts

Other Help
Resources for Writers (Creighton)
Wheaton Writing Center
Purdue's Online Writing Lab
Glossary of Literary Terms
Resources for Explicating Poetry
(uneven, but some useful insights here)


sweatervestboy
(Teaching Blog)

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