Email to Advisee

 

NOTE: This might overwhelm, so don't worry. This is just a list of ongoing things we will think about as you make your way through the next two (or three?) years.

Dear ---,

Thank you for meeting with me on Zoom!

So I wanted to make a list of things for us to think about on your way to your degree:

I don't know if you could spread out your semesters, based on scholarships and such, but that might be a plan? The more time we can plan before you start grad school in Oregan or Washington (best plan) the better.

Aside from classes, I will begin with looking for:

Books for book reviews

Intern or part time editing positions

WTE (Washburn Transformational Experience) $1000 grant for either overseas travel or attending AWP--either way with a mentor

AWP would be the best acclimation for being an editor, as you would be able to speak with and attend panels made of editors

Links to websites to get a feel for the publishing world, like this one: https://www.spdbooks.org/

Plan for grad school: you will want to begin at least a year out by taking the GRE the summer before the year you graduate. The GRE is the standardized test many schools ask for.

MFA schools ranked: https://www.pw.org/content/2019_mfa_index_your_guide_to_more_than_220_programs

I really don't want to overwhelm you. We have plenty of time to plan and get you set up for success. You already are on your way with your decision!

Plus, congratulations on having your essay nominated!

Speaking of, to start keeping track of everything in a CV/resume. I recommend using the CV form: school first.

I think this looks good. As always, please feel free to send questions my way.

Thank you!

All Best,

The War in the Bully Boss

 

 

The War in the Bully Boss, The War in Grunge, The War in Little League Baseball, The War in Surprise, The War in the Silence

 

Topeka packet

 In Topeka; O, Topeka, Topeka, Topeka!; Another Attempt at an Elegy for Another Mother; Pastoral AF; Kansas Tallgrass Prairie Drawing

To include

 In addition to how the next phase of my writing will turn out, I definitely want to get out of any emo mode. Kimberly said my poems are emo. So as I said about ADHD and I love what Dogman has 80 h d as a robot. That's the kind of approach I made. Some more Matthew cooperman and zapruder.

Summer

 Using Sarah Vap's Winter, I want to write on my project Summer.

It seems that if I were to make a list of things when I think of summer so many are traumatic. Now there are definitely good things like when we went to Colorado in the summer. But otherwise it is very traumatizing. And maybe list making as well as I wasn't so lucky boys to text as we go through summer will help. I could even step through each year and think of summer in that way. The jobs I've had picnics and things that happened in summer. Even The Boys of Summer. Toxic masculinity. Summer blockbusters. How I want to be indoors and not Outdoors.

The War in the Writing packet

 

The War in History Class, The War in the Writing, The War in What Women Did, The War in the Fear of Night’s Inheritance, The War in an LBJ Cell

 

Prose Poetry Workshop

 

Poet CHRIS SALERNO is teaching an advanced prose poem writing course online this summer.

 

Here's how he describes the class:

 

"The prose poem is a border genre, a territory open to writers who often come to it from all directions. First used deliberately by poets centuries ago who rebelled against conventional poetic form, this genre has only swelled in popularity. In the right hands, a prose poem can offer the best qualities of both poetry and prose. Some offer the spontaneity of poetic imagery, metaphor and other figures of speech coupled with narrative elements, while others manipulate expectations of tone and voice within the subtle pasture of the prose block form.

 

"Russell Edson said, 'A good prose poem is a statement that seeks sanity whilst its author teeters on the edge of the abyss.' The prose poem often excites writers because of the opportunities to capture readers who may accept in a prose poem what that they might resist in formal poetry. The reader may expect the prose to inform and not sing, to be flat and not rhythmic, to be straight and not warped. As we will see, there is no single definition of this genre, which offers writers an abundance of freedom.

 

"In this course we will study the history of the form as both readers and writers, and we’ll also look at language as material to be shaped as we define what turns ordinary prose into 'poetic' language to be presented in the visual space of the page. To that end, we will trace the origins of the genre, but place special emphasis on how the prose poem is being handled today—what is happening now with the genre, and how might this inform our own writing?

 

"Students will write prose poems that evolve out of the readings and assignments provided. The teacher and students will respond to student writing with positive and constructive suggestions for revision. Texts: The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem, 2018, edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod; The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Prose Poetry: Contemporary Poets in Discussion and Practice, 2010, edited by Gary L. McDowell and Frank Daniel Rzicznek."

 

This three-credit class runs online May 24 - July 02. Tuition is approximately $750 per credit in-state or $1,161 per credit out-of-state.