Some announcements

Blog responses to the readings are due every week. Look to the list at the right and see what others are writing, and thinking, about... There's some brilliant and thoughtful ideas and insights in some of those pages. Remember, writing in any form can help one think through and process ideas, which is only beneficial to more and future writing and thinking...

 Also, come prepared to look at Halberstam and DuPlessis briefly again on Monday. And your drafts of Project 2.

Also, two events this weekend, go if you can:

(...): An Evening of Contemporary Poetry/Performance

Tomorrow at 8:00pm

128 W. Michigan Ave Apt 5

https://www.facebook.com/events/380207835444205/

 

 

Flyer for Barrett Watten reading @ Evidence with Benjamin Paloff, this Saturday, October 19, 8 PM, 407 W. Marshall, Ferndale (west of Woodward, south of 9 Mile): http://bit.ly/1bZ8HU4.

This Week and Next

Keep thinking about Dictee and how it incorporates ideas from some of our other readings, how you can think about it in terms of your own writing, work, educational and intellectual endeavors, etc., and how it may be useful for thinking, at least in part, about the relationship between writing, identity, and the world.

Today (Wed) we are doing the first of the presentations of outside texts. Think of this as a time to listen and learn more about the variety of kinds of texts that are out there in the world today. Think about the relationship between form and content particularly in texts that transcend or exceed genre in some way: what kinds of things do you notice in terms of formal and structural issues and strategies, and what do you notice about how and what kinds of content are used in the various texts. Think about your own writing and creative practices and how you can challenge yourself to go beyond your comfort zone, to try some different approaches and strategies in the construction of your next project, how you can think beyond your own conceptions of what genre is and what it can be. Consider engaging with the presenters of the outside texts by asking questions and helping all of us work through some thoughtful ideas and responses to these various kinds of work.

For Monday: read DuPlessis and Halberstam (on EMU Online) and write a 1-2 page creative response to one or both of the texts. The what and how of the response is up to you, be creative. Print and bring this with you to class.

Also start working on, thinking about your creative project 2. This will be similar to the first project but will be longer and may ask you to incorporate some specific practices or strategies that come out of some of the things we have talked about. Still it will be wide open to interpretation and construction based on your creative interests

Write it and Submit it

this is fun: http://www.3elementsreview.com/submission-guidelines.html

some great cross-trans-hybrid-visual poetic projects and innovative writing

try this: http://www.thevolta.org/ewc-mainpage.html


and this: http://www.innovative-fiction-magazine.com/

Cellar Roots Editor Needed

The Student Media Board (The Eastern Echo/Cellar Roots, etc.) is now accepting applications for Editor in Chief for 2013-2014 of the award winning literary and arts journal Cellar Roots.  The deadline for applying is Thursday, October 17 at noon. Applicants must be currently enrolled at EMU as a graduate or undergraduate student, must remain enrolled throughout their tenure as EIC and must be registered for at least four credit hours for graduate students or six credit hours for undergrads. 

If you know of any students interested in applying for this position, please direct them to email me at Kevin.Devine@emich.edu for more information and application instructions.  They might also be interested in reviewing past issues, available here in Student Media, 230 King Hall or online at www.CellarRoots.com prior to applying.

awesome reading this Fri

Site/Nonsite Detroit: Poetry @ASAP

 http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten/pdfs/ASAP%20reading.pdf 

Brian Ang (Oakland, CA; editor of Armed Cell); Sara Larsen; (Oakland, CA; organizer of The Public School); David Lau

(Santa Cruz, CA; editor of Lana Turner); Rob Halpern (Ypsilanti, MI; author of Music for Porn); Jonathan Stalling (Norman, OK; author of Yingelishi); UIjana Wolf (Berlin/Brooklyn; author of falsche freunde). Hosted by Tyrone Williams (Xavier University). Organized by Barrett Watten (Wayne State University).

Friday, October 4, 7:30–9:00 PM

TheWelcome Center @ Wayne State University

Woodward &Warren, Detroit

Free & open to the public

submit work

Greetings all! Eleven Eleven is open for submissions, now with online submissions! Send us your bestest at http://elevenelevenjournal.com/submit/



Dear :

We’re writing so that you might encourage your students to submit their work to Open Palm Print, a semi-annual magazine that focuses on promoting writers and artists from and/or affiliated with Michigan and the surrounding area. Although the magazine is open to submissions from people of all ages and professions, we feel that students often need a jumping-off point in regard to getting published and, with your help, we would love to offer them that platform.

Information regarding upcoming deadlines and submission requirements, as well as examples of previously published work, can be found at our website (www.openpalmprint.com). The deadline for our next issue is October 21, 2013, but we accept submissions year-round. We’d love for you to check us out at your convenience! Additionally, please feel free to forward this email to other professors in the department so they can make this information available to their students if they so choose.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to email us at openpalmprint@gmail.com. Thanks in advance for spreading the word!

Cheers,

The staff at OPP