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  • Cut-up Poetry – In-Person 
  • Item Number: W25ARTS112A
    Dates: 2/6/2025 - 2/27/2025
    Times: 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
    Days: Th
    Sessions: 4
    Maximum Enrollment:  20
    Building: Campbell Center
    Room: Room C
    Instructor: Sallie Ehrman
    Would you rather play Scrabble than Monopoly because you love the surprise of creating words from the letter tiles you choose? Magnify that joy and you’ll have the experience of cut-up poetry. All participants receive an assortment of pages from a variety of books that range from poetry to recipes to nonfiction texts on sewing or driving. Instead of choosing letter tiles, students pick words and phrases that speak to them from a page of text. Prompts and guidelines give students enough time to amass enough scraps to create a piece of writing. The juxtaposition available due to the different texts lends a certain nuance of magic to the creativity of the cut-up poem. Students may share their work with the class, but it’s not required.
  • Readers Write Personal Narratives – Online 
  • Item Number: W25ARTS186
    Dates: 1/6/2025 - 2/17/2025
    Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
    Days: M
    Sessions: 6
    Maximum Enrollment:  23
    Building: Online
    Room: (Zoom)
    Instructor: John Pratt, Linda Jaffe

    This course gives students a structured opportunity to write short personal narratives. The format comes from “The Sun” literary magazine, which includes a “Readers Write” section each month. We will review samples from past issues of “The Sun” and write our own responses to the magazine’s prompts. We will also look at upcoming topics and write essays that we may choose to submit for publication in the magazine. Students are expected to commit to writing one 400- to 800-word essay each week and share it on our interactive course website in SOU’s Moodle. When students post essays, others may respond with answers to the following questions, intended to encourage supportive feedback: What did you notice? What struck you? How did you connect personally to the story? All students are welcome, regardless of writing experience. This course has been offered previously; however, all writing prompts will be new. 

    NOTE: There is no class on Monday, January 20, in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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