{"id":3503,"date":"2017-11-02T22:17:43","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T22:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2017-11-02T22:17:43","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T22:17:43","slug":"sleeping-with-the-lesson-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.suzannechurchill.com\/eng394-f17\/2017\/11\/02\/sleeping-with-the-lesson-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleeping with the Lesson Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ellie &amp; Meredith<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Announcements (5 mins)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Ellipses Activity*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Run the Program (5 mins)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Run program twice, ask people to read poems aloud. Can we get meaning from these poems, even if they were randomly generated? Do these make more or less sense than Mullen\u2019s original?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Debrief\/discuss (5 mins)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How did you feel doing this activity (the filling-in blanks part)? Did you like it? Did it change the way you read this poem?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How did this activity change the way you read the poem? Did it at all?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Concepts: The idea of randomness in Mullen\u2019s poetry \/ language poetry in general.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">What\u2019s said\/ unsaid in Mullen\u2019s poetry<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This poem relies on leaving open the unsaid. What does it mean for us to call up responses to these ellipses? Are we going against the spirit in which the poem was written, or with it?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Transition to theory*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Possible direction: Us vs. Them in \u201cElliptical\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Lead this into a quick lecture on Language &amp; Black Arts poetry.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Possible direction: Breakdown of language (oulipo)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Brief Lecture* (5 mins):<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harryette Mullen is generally categorized at the center of two literary camps.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Language poetry: Came up in the 70&#8217;s (after New York school).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to the New York School: poets turning on language itself<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stripping the poem of the lyric \u201cI\u201d in order to divorce language from meaning<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emphasizes the role of reader and creates a form of communal reading<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Political affiliation: left; contests the established social order by challenging established associations within language<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Language poetry is participatory: it relies on reader&#8217;s act of near-translation to become an active literary experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Precusor: Gertrude Stein<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Has continued to influence poetry today, esp. since the most influential writers are still teaching today<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Key writers: Lyn Heijinian, Ron Silliman, Charles Bernstein.<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Arts Movement:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;the artistic sister of the Black Power Movement&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Seminal work: Amiri Baraka, &#8220;Black Art.&#8221; \u201cPoems are bullshit unless they are \/ teeth or trees or lemons piled \/ on a step.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shares a strong rejection of societal convention; here, however, the focus is specifically on racial injustice<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dates: 1960-1970. Coincided with the civil rights and Black Power movements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Parallel to Harlem Renaissance: drawing on AAVE, musical influences to provide the poems with rhythm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Key writers: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Gwendolyn Brooks, Jayne Cortez, Lorraine Hansberry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critical conversation about Mullen:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Critics are using Mullen to push back at limits of Language poetry. Her work exemplifies the way that language cannot be divorced from identity \u2014 words are always connected, through a reader\u2019s set of associations, to their cultural context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Look to Any Lit as an example of these two forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Close reading!* (15 mins)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big three poems to touch on:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Coo\/ Slur<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Making the issue of color literal; taking clich\u00e9s to the very roots and building up.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Words mean doubly to the point of not being readable. Ask a brave soul to read the poem aloud; talk about that person\u2019s choice in pronunciation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Title is an anagram for the word \u201ccolours\u201d (British spelling). (from an interview with Mullen).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The idea of our society having default colors (think \u201cflesh-toned\u201d crayons) \u2014 Mullen is making readers feel uncomfortable in the context of color.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an interview, Mullen said about this poem \u201cI\u2019m not saying that this poem is profound or deep at all. It\u2019s free association from a list of colors.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Souvenir from Anywhere<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shares a focus on color with \u201cCoo\/Slur.\u201d What does it do differently? How does this function as Mullen\u2019s rejection of colorblindness?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Nikes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(In case the essays don\u2019t come up during the close reading: 5 mins).<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Poetry and identity: Are Mullen\u2019s aesthetics more closely aligned with the Language Poets or the Black Arts movement? Is it important to categorize her at all? What is the name of the anthology you would put her in?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">*Activity* (10 mins): Create a class poem! Split into two, one group creates a scaffolding for the sentence and writes it on the poster board. while the other prepares a list of nouns\/ phrases to fill in. Get together and put the poems together on poster board. Then <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Final question (5 mins): Responding to Erin\u2019s challenge \u2014 where can the avant-garde go from NY School? Where did it go? How does Mullen\u2019s poetry provide an answer to this question \u2014 if it does at all?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellie &amp; Meredith Announcements (5 mins) *Ellipses Activity* Run the Program (5 mins) Run program twice, ask people to read poems aloud. Can we get meaning from these poems, even if they were randomly generated? 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