For Tuesday, February 21st

I had a lot of fun this morning talking about sentences. I hope that you did, too. Remembering to go through a draft and make sure that each sentence, each word is really pulling its weight will make both your poetry and your fiction SO much stronger and more interesting to read.

**Write a piece of flash fiction like the ones we read in class today. I want it to be between 50 and 300 words. Think about framing a moment of connection or disconnection.

**Read Incarnations of Burned Children by David Foster Wallace (who also wrote “The depressed person” sentence) on p. 180 of the 3rd edition of the textbook.

**Also read Reunion by John Cheever.

**In reading the DFW story, I want you to think about sentence length and tension. Reading Cheever think about the pattern of connection and disconnection between the two main characters and how Cheever shows that to us as readers.

**ALSO! IMPORTANT! Your imitations, imitation presentations, and poetry papers are coming up! (They will be due on March 8th.) Go to poetryfoundation.org  and/or poets.org and/or read through the book and find a few different poems you like by different poets. Email me about it by Tuesday night, with links to the poems, and a sentence or two about why you like them.

Have a great weekend, email me if you have any questions!