Using Ross Gay’s essay as inspiration, choose any short text (poem, essay, story—maybe even a song lyric if you wish to return to and develop
Choose a color (it doesn’t have to be your favorite—it could even be a color you dislike) and using the vignette style of Nelson’s Bluets,
For this longer “sense” assignment, touch is the key theme, but more broadly you should consider the subject to be the body: what it feels
Write: What food has significance to you and/or your family or friends? Is it connected to a cultural tradition? A specific time of year? Is
IMPORTANT GUIDELINES: For this essay, the form is up to you, but you should make sure to pay attention to the following elements:
Listen to a song that had special meaning for you at an earlier time in your life (just make sure you have some real temporal
Choose a “non-literary” format that you can use to write about a challenge (fears, anxieties, regrets, rejections, illnesses, injuries, heartbreaks, etc.) that you have faced
From New York Photobooks: “Autobiography is a photographic inventory of LeWitt’s objects in his living and working space in New York City. The series starts with
Write your own “I Remember” piece that explores your past in non-linear vignettes. You might want to work from your “Hume Bundles of Impressions” exercise
Post your “Where I’m From” pieces here. You don;t have to write them as a poem–it could be a prose paragraph if you prefer. What
Watch both of the following videos and note your reactions, thoughts, and questions–bring these notes to class (no response is required on this site for