PERMISSIONS: To view the blog, post on it, and comment on posts, you must be invited. I will send you an email invitation to join the blog, and then you must follow the instructions to join up and begin posting. You can't join the blog without first creating a Google account.

POSTING: Post your poems by clicking "New Post" at the top right of the page. Paste your poem into the window.

LABELING: Then label the post with the assignment name (i.e., "confessional poem," "sonnet," etc.), your name (i.e., "Tony Barnstone," etc.), and the week (i.e., "week one," "week two," but not "week 1"--spell out your numbers). If you post a poem in week two that is due in week three, label it "week three." When you begin to type in a label, the program will fill it in for you, so your post will be labeled with the rest of the poems in the same category.

COMMENTING: Afterwards, you can "comment" on the posts of your classmates. Post "group one" and "group two" one-page critical responses as "comments" on the posted poems, but also print out copies for me and for the poet and give them to us in class.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Where I'm Writing From; For Raymond Carver

These days your name is a

phrase that tears on my ears,

and writing is like catching my foot on a nail

or stepping in broken glass someone left behind.


A phrase that tears on my ears, that

echoes, pierces the fabric of memory,

like stepping in broken glass that someone left behind;

it reminds me of objections left unvoiced.


Pierce the fabric of memory and

scream yourself to sleep without sound, without echoes.

Spring reminds me of objections left unvoiced;

of reluctant copulations and uncomfortable sweat.


Scream yourself to sleep without sound

while frontier battles rage in your breast.

Remembering the reluctant copulations and uncomfortable sweat,

my tongue trembles on the seal of the envelope I don’t know that I’ll send.

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