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Week 4 Logs.

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Week 4:

Monday, April 22

½ hour – touching up draft of Seminar Pass.

6 ½ hours – drafting sections of anthology/touching up introduction.

2 hours – Peer review and somatic exercise.

½ hour – revising draft of Seminar Pass and posting to forum.

Tuesday, April 23

1 hour – posting weekly logs to eAlphabet.

5 ½ hours – Core component: lecture on Perloff talking about Howe’s The Midnight, meanings matter: minds mediation by/through objects. Performance: Russian poetry. Seminar on Perloff/Neuro, renegotiating class schedule.

4 hours – revising/and drafting anthology.

½ hour – meeting with contract sponsor.

1 hour – reading The Midnight.

Wednesday, April 24

1 hour – reading The Midnight.

3 ½ hours – anthology work, “cementing” in quotes.

1 ½ hours – Artist lecture: Eirik Steinhoff.

Thursday, April 25

4 hours – Anthology. Moving through the sections adding quotes and tying them together. Sent out “last-call” for papers and poems.

2 ½ hours – reading The Midnight

½ hour – reading aloud anthology.

Friday, April 26

½ hour – making small edits to anthology.

Saturday, April 27

½ hour – adding in more quotes and dialogue.

½ hour – finished reading The Midnight

Sunday, April 28

2 ½ hours – reading Neuro

1 ½ hours – writing seminar pass.

4 ½ hours – working on anthology: finishing out the last two steps in the first section, writing preface to part two, selecting work from reveries and poetry, looking up images for cover art inspiration.

Weekly Totals: 44 ½ hours

Cumulative Totals: 130.5 hours

Ab – Week 3 Logs.

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Week 3:

Monday, April 15

2 hours – organizing type at Sherwood Press.

2 hours – peer review and yoga.

½ hour – editing seminar pass.

1 ½ hours – talking about and further planning the anthology.

½ hour – finding and posting a new letter image for the blog.

1 ½ hours – working on anthology.

Tuesday, April 16

6 hours – Tuesday core component. Susan Howe lecture and recitation of students work, seminar on Susan Howe’s “My Emily Dickinson” and “Neuro” chapter 2.

1 hour – Meeting with Sara Martin to discuss anthology.

½ hour – reading essays for anthology material.

1 hour – reading Material Feminism (introduction.)

Wednesday, April 17

1 hour – Participated in the Calculated Poetics variation on “Excerscises In Style.”

3 ½ hours – anthology: reading students poetry and drafting introduction.

2 hours – reading The Elements Of Typographic Style (Chapters 1 & 4)

Thursday, April 18

4 hours – anthology: reading students poetry writing draft of introduction.

1 ½ hours – reading Unoriginal Genious

2 ½ – putting away type at Sherwood Press.

Friday, April 19

½ hour – posting new letter to eAlphabet

½ hour – reading Unoriginal Genious

2 ½ hours – revising introduction.

Saturday, April 20

1 hour – revising introduction and beginning to draft the Holdgrege sections.

2 ½ hours – writing draft of part one in the anthology.

Sunday, April 21

3 hours – reading: Unoriginal Genious and Neuro, Ch. 3

4 ½ hours – revising introduction for anthology and part of section 1.

2 hours – writing seminar pass.

Weekly Total: 47 ½ hours

Cumulative Totals: 86 hours

 

Ab – Week 2 Logs.

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Week 2:

Monday 8 – Wednesday 10

Field trip to Hoh Rainforest and Copper Canyon Press.

Thursday, April 11th

2 ½ hours – reading and taking notes/creating prompts for poems.

2 hours – working on the anthology.

Friday, April 12th

½ hour – working on anthology.

Saturday, April 13th

3 hours – reading My Emily Dickinson.

Sunday, April 14th

3 ½ hours – reading My Emily Dickinson.

2 ½ hours – reading Neuro.

1 ½ hours – writing seminar pass.

Weekly Total: 15 ½ hours

Cumulative Total: 38 ½ hours

Ab – Week 1 Logs.

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Week 1:

Monday, April 1

3 hours – reading Neuro and Perloff.

1 hour – writing seminar pass

½ hour – researching poet from Perloff.

2 hours – peer review session.

Tuesday, April 2

6 hours – core component. Lecture and seminar.

1 hour – reading essays for anthology.

Wednesday, April 3

2 hours – working on anthology. Reading poetry/essays/plugging into template.

½ hour – creating a weekly outline of goals for the anthology.

½ hour – Slightly West meeting.

Thursday, April 4

2 hours – plugging poetry and essays into template.

Friday, April 5

1 ½ hours – reading

Saturday, April 6

packing for field trip

Sunday, April 7

Packing for field trip

Weekly Total: 20 hours

Cumulative Total: 23 hours

Ab is for Anthology

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Field Study proposal 

The student will focus on finalizing the anthology of work generated by the student’s in the program As Poetry Recycles Neurons. She will also continue to explore her passion for letterpress by organizing type at Sherwood Press. She will explore her typographic and design skills as well by formatting the book through Indesign.

ABCs and 123s – weekly log and field notes

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Spring Term Paper

Introduction

Mimicking the seasons (and our observation of their rhythms) the curricular themes in As Poetry Recycles Neurons: Flocks Of Words, Tracks Of Letters, have shifted, evolved and recycled. The work in this anthology traces that movement from fall through winter quarter.The essays in Part I: Science As A Conversation were written during the fall when we spent time at The Evergreen State College’s Organic Farm. We observed ourselves being drawn to a plant through a method of science known as the Phenomenology of Knowing. This method was introduced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1832), a German poet, artist and naturalist.
We explored the slippage between art and science and the border between heart and mind while writing research papers that mixed prose and poetry. The form of our research papers followed Craig Holdrege’s Doing Goethean Science and our peppering of poetry throughout mirrored that in Stephan Buhner’s The Secret Teachings of Plants: The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature. The section headings in Part I are from Holdrege’s essay and serve as an umbrella for each of our individual voices. Part II: Poetry Of Passions, presents poetry from our winter quarter field studies during which we applied the Goethean method in a month long immersion in a particular passion. Our assignment was to make poetry evoke the experience of our immersion within a passion, as E.L. Doctorow said “Good writing is supposed to evoke sensations in the reader–not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

This anthology aims to render into language our individual experiences within the shared context of the program, to create for those of us who desire the intimacy of turning a page something tactile: a textured memory of a point in time, kept alive in the body of a book.

See full Anthology here

Purchase a copy of the book here

B – Final Performance Poems

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Mind Like Letters.

my mind like letters

sits shelved and

quiet,

collecting dust,

degenerating,

dreaming

of the time it

will feel the rumble

of the cabinet

cracking open,

the sliver of light

passing over,

becoming active

from the hand

that selects

words

for conceiving

thought.

Untitled.

She is not one to say

what is on her mind

until I tell her-

place the words on her belly

and cover them with ink and sheets-

I press her,

she picks up some

but not all,

I press her

harder,

gently forcing

to sound out every letter.

Her translations quiver

at the edges

but are full of body-

I work her,

wear her,

re-ink her,

till she is vibrating,

breathing, rolling

my words from her

loosened tongue.

Untitled

I dream

for a moment

and my skin slides off

my muscles as they drop

away from my bones

as they loosen my joints

as my mind exceeds

my body and I

disappear through the thick

of my thoughts that trail

after a memory that covers

the land that arches out

over and back

into my body

and I feel that tiny burst

of relief as time lets go

and I fall free

and unfinished to tangle

with the leaves.

B – Poem – Mind Like Letters

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Mind Like Letters

my mind like letters

sits shelved and

quiet,

collecting dust,

degenerating,

dreaming

of the time it

will feel the rumble

of the cabinet

cracking open,

the sliver of light

passing over

and becoming active

from the hand

that selects

words

for conceiving

thought.

B – Week 8 Logs

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Week 8 Logs:

 Monday February 25th

.5 hours – researching Charles Bernstine.

2 hours – writing and posting seminar pass.

1 hour – spent time in sauna thinking about breath, body and journaling about sweat.

3.5 hour – writing term paper draft.

.5 hours – writing and editing poems.

.5 hours – reading.

Tuesday February 26th

2 hours – reading.

2 hours – derive. Walking through neighborhoods/downtown,

1 hour – journaling about the need for nature in the city whether on purpose or by natures own force, thoughts on Reverie chapter.

1 hour – reading/responding/joining seminar.

2 hour – working on term paper draft.

.5 hours – looking through Poetry anthology.

Wednesday February 27th

1.5 hours – journaling about the map as a mirror of the brian, ways of writing poetry with and on a map, and ideas for how to structure term paper.

1.5 hour – reading.

.5 hours – looking over e-alphabet

1 hour – writing and revising poems! (finally)

1 hour – writing Bachelardian reverie.

4 hours – working on term paper draft, reviewing journal entries.

Thursday February 28th

5 hours – studio time. Printing and filming video for poetry observed.

2 hours – writing draft of term paper.

.5 hours – revising poems.

Friday March 1st

1 hour – reading poetry.

1 hour – writing term paper draft.

.5 hours – revising poems.

Saturday March 2nd

2.5 hours – working on term paper draft.

Sunday March 3rd

1 hour – messing with poetry observed video (trying to get it to show up in the right place)

6 hours – writing term paper draft.

Totals:

This week: 45.5

Cumulative total: 179.5

 Reading List:

The Poetics of Reverie – Bachelard.

The Molecular Gaze, Art in The Genetic Age – Suzanne Anker, Dorothy Nelkin.

Science Within Art – Rhodes.

Poetry, a Pocket Anthology – R. S. Gwynn