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AssignmentsWEEK 2--2/8: What makes a good poem? Your 1-2 pg. statement of aesthetics is due 2/8. Keep a copy so you can refer to it when writing your revised statement due Week 15. WEEK 7--Class will be held 3/15 INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Tues, Mar. 13 1:00--Alex Gang 3:40--Gerard McEnany 4:00--Trisha Angelle 4:20--Carmela Caruso 4:40--Jason Bedore Wed, Mar. 14 1:40--Sam Perkins 2:00--Yasuhito Yamamoto 2:40--Nathan Gamache 5:20--Jeff Comeau 6:00--Pamela Nisetich Thur. Mar. 15 2:00--Son-ca Lam 2:20--Shannon O'Connor 2:40--Becky Bishop 3:00--Alan Reinstein 3:20--Kathy Zimmerman WEEK 9--Liam Rector reading Apr. 5 Go to "Resources" for links to poems WEEK 13--Peter Fallon reading Apr. 26 3 POEMS BY PETER FALLON Pastorale He is stuck in the mud of four weeks’ rain backing a tractor through a gap to fodder beasts. They worship at an altar of a trailer with the tailboard off, up to their knees in a muck moraine. They swish the thuribles of their tails, slap incense breath on the silage psalter, grain, torn cud; a smothered cough. He is stuck in the mud of that profane ritual, his hundred fathers’ handicap of squids and squalls, and asks for a hand. We falter and spring free. Now I’m dragging water to a frozen trough, one with them, their muttered Bollocks, Shits, and Fuck its, a cursed yoke beneath a pair of splashing buckets.
My Care Sometimes we sit in Phil’s and watch a film, Hill Street Blues, or something. But this is new— we make a point of turning on the news. A kidnap, check-points, searches, killers on the run. The peace-keeping force can’t keep the peace. The new law is the outlaw gun. The government debates. Here and there It seems the talk goes on forever. Talk, talk, talk… After a while it could be a chimney fire, or bad weather. Should I do more? Is it enough to keep a weather eye and talk to friends? I honestly don’t know. All I ever wanted was to make a safe house in the midlands. ‘How’s all your care?’ I’m asked. ‘Grand. And yours?’ I don’t repeat my worry for my care, my country. When I go home the animals are healthy, safe. There’s that. I go inside and stir the fire. Soon I’m sitting by a riot Of kindling, the soft explosions of seasoned logs. They have sheken the roots of that familiar quiet.
A Human Harvest Our wishes quicken into flesh and yield a human harvest. Remembered, revived— the parts of a family flock home to nest. His sister, our daughter— we clutch her as a text of faith. He needs to know, Will she still be here in the morning? Yes, love, tomorrow, and the next.
WEEK 14: Individual Conference Schedule Tuesday, May 1 1:00--Jason 2:00--Nathan 2:40--Carmela 3:40--Gerry 4:00--Ruth
Wednesday, May 2 1:20--Son-ca 2:00--Yasuhito 4:20--Alex Thursday, May 3 2:00--Shannon 2:40--Becky 3:00--Patricia 3:20--Kathy 3:40--Alan 6:30--Pam 6:50--Jeff WEEK 14 Lightning Round, 5/3--Patricia Angelle, Son-ca Lam, Alan Reinstein, Kathy Zimmerman, Jeff Comeau, Yasuhito Yamamoto, Jason Bedore, Gerry McEnany. WEEK 15 Lightning Round, 5/10--Nathan Gamache, Becky Bishop, Pam Nisetich, Shannon O'Connor, Alex Gang, Sam Perkins, Carmela Caruso, Ruth Meteer.
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