Wingbeats II: Exercises and Practice in Poetry

Scott Wiggerman

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WINGBEATS II: EXERCISES & PRACTICE IN POETRY, the eagerly awaited follow-up to the original WINGBEATS, is an exciting collection from teaching poets–58 poets, 59 exercises. Whether you want a quick exercise to jump-start the words or multi-layered approaches that will take you deeper into poetry, WINGBEATS II is for you. The exercises include clear step-by-step instruction and numerous example poems, including work by Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Cleopatra Mathis, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Patricia Smith, William Carlos Williams, and others. You will find exercises for collaborative writing, for bending narrative into new poetic shapes, for experimenting with persona, for writing nonlinear poems. For those interested in traditional elements, WINGBEATS II includes exercises on the sonnet, as well as approaches to meter, line breaks, syllabics, and more. Like its predecessor, WINGBEATS II will be a standard in creative writing classes, a standard go-to in every poet's library.

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• Poetry

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• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 17 novembre 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780984039982
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Wingbeats II:
Exercises & Practice in Poetry
© 2015, Dos Gatos Press
ISBN–13: 978-09840399-8-2
 
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All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without prior permission from the publisher and the copyright owner, except by reviewers who wish to quote brief passages.
 
 
The editors wish to thank the poets who generously allowed their poems to be used as examples in the Wingbeats exercises; and—most important—the teaching poets who submitted exercises for this book.
 
 
First Edition
 
 
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Poetry is what you find
in the dirt in the corner,
 
overhear on the bus, God
in the details, the only way
 
to get from here to there.
~ Elizabeth Alexander
 
 
I read the line over and over
as if I might discern
the little fires set
the flames of an idea       licking the page
~ Natasha Trethewey
Table of Contents eBook Cover Title Page Alternate Table of Contents Editors’ Note Chapter I: Jump-Starting the Poem The World Is Ending in Ten Minutes! ~ Alan Birkelbach Getting Unstuck: Ten Warm-Ups ~ Sandra Soli Junk Drawers: Tools & Rules ~ Barbara Crooker Beyond Story: Moving a Poem from Concrete Image to Revelation ~ Christine Dumaine Leche Sentimental Immunity: The Animal Poem ~ Adrienne Su One More Mask: Exploring the Theater of Poetry ~ Robin Chapman The Foodie Response: Pushing through Writer’s Block ~ Karla K. Morton Things: A Brainstorming Game for All Ages ~ Sandra Soli Scars: Getting Under the Skin ~ Sheryl Luna A Little Bit of Soul: Narrative Medicine ~ Allison Adelle Hedge Coke When Good Advice Turns Bad ~ Diane Lockward The World Without Us: An Exercise in Apocalypse ~ Keith Ekiss Chapter II: Elements of Poetry Repetition & Cadence, or Repetition for Cadence ~ Laure-Anne Bosselaar Soundscape Poems ~ Farid Matuk Where the Line Breaks ~ Millicent Borges Accardi Energy of Three: Unity & Imbalance in the Tercet ~ David Meischen Getting the Beat: Methods for Teaching Rhythm ~ Rhina P. Espaillat Tell It Slant: The Extended Metaphor ~ Meg Kearney Defamiliarizing the Apple: Ostranenie & Awareness ~ Nickole Brown Becoming Another: The Persona Poem ~ Veronica Golos Poetry Superpowers vs. Poetry Kryptonite ~ Lee Ann Roripaugh Chapter III: The Role of Repurposing Inside/Outside ~ Jason Schneiderman Jump-Start that Poem-Making Project: A Repurposing & Caulking Exercise ~ Pablo Miguel Martínez The Echo: Same-Language Translation ~ Ada Limón An Exercise in Derangement ~ Carmen Giménez Smith Least Significant Object: The Importance of Point of View ~ Alan Birkelbach Renegades, We Run ~ Regie Cabico and Tina Jacobson Creating an Improvised Poetic Chorus ~ Ching-In Chen The PoJack ~ Tim Seibles Chapter IV: Structure & Form List Poems & Syllabics: Discovery through Form ~ Alfred Nicol The Incredible Shrinking Poem: Using Syllabics to Inspire & Surprise ~ Brent Goodman Writing the Bad Sonnet ~ Scott Wiggerman The Sonnet Sequence & the Three S’s: Story, Symbol, & Song ~ Angela Alaimo O’Donnell The Haikoum ~ Anna Evans Writing Renga Together ~ Elizabeth Jacobson The Landay ~ Alfred Corn The Lyric as Letter ~ Melissa Kwasny Mirror, Mirror: Inverting Stanzas ~ Cleopatra Mathis The Happy Blues Exercise ~ Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Fun with Fake Truths: The Wikipedia Poem ~ Dean Rader If They Can Do It, You Can, Too: The Dialectical Argument Poem ~ Michael Theune Chapter V: The Power of Words, Names, Numbers Poems Aware of History: Using the Oxford English Dictionary ~ Natasha Sajé Weird Word Poems ~ Christopher Kennedy The Poetry of Multiple Naming ~ Tony Hoagland Digging for Names ~ Joanne Diaz The New Yesterday: The Researched Poem ~ Marcela Sulak Writing the Mathematical Poem: Two Approaches ~ Carol Dorf A Different Dictionary ~ Cole Swensen Nouns at Work, Verbs at Play ~ Tomás Q. Morín Definition by Opposition ~ Marty McConnell Chapter VI: Complicating the Poem Right Turn, Clyde: Ten Variations on a Broken Poem ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum Between Sentiment & Language: Creating Tension ~ Patricia Colleen Murphy Dip, Rise, Dive: Personal Questions & the Leap into Poetry ~ Valerie Martínez Lying: A Series of Exercises ~ James Harms Memory, Periphery, & Then Some ~ Victoria Redel Braided Narrative ~ Kevin Prufer Tessellation: Obsessing over Patterns ~ Sarah Vap On a Toehold, on Curious Rocks: The Poem as Collage ~ Rebecca Wee Syllabus for a Seminar on Silence ~ Kazim Ali Acknowledgments Index of Exercises and Poems
Alternate Table of Contents
Working with Others
The World Is Ending in Ten Minutes! ~ Alan Birkelbach
Sentimental Immunity: The Animal Poem ~ Adrienne Su
Things: A Brainstorming Game for All Ages ~ Sandra Soli
Scars: Getting Under the Skin ~ Sheryl Luna
Repetition & Cadence, or Repetition for Cadence ~ Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Tell It Slant: The Extended Metaphor ~ Meg Kearney
Inside/Outside ~ Jason Schneiderman
Renegades, We Run ~ Regie Cabico and Tina Jacobson
Creating an Improvised Poetic Chorus ~ Ching-In Chen
The PoJack ~ Tim Seibles
List Poems & Syllabics: Discovery through Form ~ Alfred Nicol
Writing the Bad Sonnet ~ Scott Wiggerman
Writing Renga Together ~ Elizabeth Jacobson
Fun with Fake Truths: The Wikipedia Poem ~ Dean Rader
If They Can, You Can: The Dialectical Argument Poem ~ Michael Theune
Tessellation: Obsessing over Patterns ~ Sarah Vap
Voice or Persona
One More Mask: Exploring the Theater of Poetry ~ Robin Chapman
When Good Advice Turns Bad ~ Diane Lockward
Becoming Another: The Persona Poem ~ Veronica Golos
Poetry Superpowers vs. Poetry Kryptonite ~ Lee Ann Roripaugh
The Echo: Same-Language Translation ~ Ada Limón
Least Significant Object: The Importance of Point of View ~ Alan Birkelbach
Renegades, We Run ~ Regie Cabico and Tina Jacobson
Creating an Improvised Poetic Chorus ~ Ching-In Chen
The Lyric as Letter ~ Melissa Kwasny
Fun with Fake Truths: The Wikipedia Poem ~ Dean Rader
The Poetry of Multiple Naming ~ Tony Hoagland
Between Sentiment & Language: Creating Tension ~ Patricia Colleen Murphy
Syllabus for a Seminar on Silence ~ Kazim Ali
Variations on Narrative
Beyond Story: From Image to Revelation ~ Christine Dumaine Leche
The Foodie Response: Pushing through Writer’s Block ~ Karla K. Morton
Scars: Getting Under the Skin ~ Sheryl Luna
A Little Bit of Soul: Narrative Medicine ~ Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
The World Without Us: An Exercise in Apocalypse ~ Keith Ekiss
Energy of Three: Unity & Imbalance in the Tercet ~ David Meischen
Becoming Another: The Persona Poem ~ Veronica Golos
Renegades, We Run ~ Regie Cabico and Tina Jacobson
The Sonnet Sequence: Story, Symbol, & Song ~ Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
The Lyric as Letter ~ Melissa Kwasny
The Happy Blues Exercise ~ Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Fun with Fake Truths: The Wikipedia Poem ~ Dean Rader
The New Yesterday: The Researched Poem ~ Marcela Sulak
Definition by Opposition ~ Marty McConnell
Dip, Rise, Dive: Personal Questions, the Leap into Poetry ~ Valerie Martínez
Lying: A Series of Exercises ~ James Harms
Memory, Periphery, & Then Some ~ Victoria Redel
Braided Narrative ~ Kevin Prufer
On a Toehold, on Curious Rocks: The Poem as Collage ~ Rebecca Wee
Incorporating Research
One More Mask: Exploring the Theater of Poetry ~ Robin Chapman
Becoming Another: The Persona Poem ~ Veronica Golos
The Lyric as Letter ~ Melissa Kwasny
Fun with Fake Truths: The Wikipedia Poem ~ Dean Rader
Poems Aware of History: Using the OED ~ Natasha Sajé
Weird Word Poems ~ Christopher Kennedy
Digging for Names ~ Joanne Diaz
The New Yesterday: The Researched Poem ~ Marcela Sulak
Writing the Mathematical Poem: Two Approaches ~ Carol Dorf
Tessellation: Obsessing over Patterns ~ Sarah Vap
On a Toehold, on Curious Rocks: The Poem as Collage ~ Rebecca Wee
Nonlinear Approaches, Nonlinear Poems
An Exercise in Derangement ~ Carmen Giménez Smith
Creating an Improvised Poetic Chorus ~ Ching-In Chen
Mirror, Mirror: Inverting Stanzas ~ Cleopatra Mathis
Poems Aware of History: Using the OED ~ Natasha Sajé
Writing the Mathematical Poem: Two Approaches ~ Carol Dorf
Right Turn, Clyde: Ten Variations on a Broken Poem ~ Jill Alexander Essbaum
Dip, Rise, Dive: Personal Questions, the Leap into Poetry ~ Valerie Martínez
Lying: A Series of Exercises ~ James Harms
Memory, Periphery, & Then Some ~ Victoria Redel
Braided Narrative ~ Kevin Prufer
Tessellation: Obsessing over Patterns ~ Sarah Vap
On a Toehold, on Curious Rocks: The Poem as Collage ~ Rebecca Wee
Syllabus for a Seminar on Silence ~ Kazim Ali
For Poets Seeking a Challenge
Poetry Superpowers vs. Poetry Kryptonite ~ Lee Ann Roripaugh
An Exercise in Derangement ~ Carmen Giménez Smith
Creating an Improvised Poetic Chorus ~ Ching-In Chen
The Incredible Shrinking Poem: Using Syllabics ~ Brent Goodman
The Sonnet Sequence: Story, Symbol, & Song ~ Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
The Haikoum ~ Anna Evans
Mirror, Mirror: Inverting Stanzas ~ Cleopatra Mathis
If They Can, You Can: The Dialectical Argument Poem ~ Michael Theune
Definition by Opposition ~ Marty McConnell
Braided Narrative ~ Kevin Prufer
Tessellation: Obsessing over Patterns ~ Sarah Vap
Syllabus for a Seminar on Silence ~ Kazim Ali
Revision
Junk Drawers: Tools & Rules ~ Barbara Crooker
When Good Advice Turns Bad ~ Diane Lockward
Repetition & Cadence, or Repetition for Cadence ~ Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Soundscape Poems ~ Farid Matuk
Energy of Three: Unity & Imbalance in the Tercet ~ David Meischen
Creating an Improvised Poetic Chorus ~ Ching-In Chen
The PoJack ~ Tim Seibles
The Incredible Shrinking Poem: Using Syllabics ~ Brent Goodman
If They Can, You Can: The Dialectical Argument Poem ~ Michael Theune
Nouns at Work, Verbs at Play ~ Tomás Q. Morín
Right Turn, Clyde: Te