Craft Class Fall 2010, Tuesdays 6:30-8:00 PM
Sept 28: The Best American Short Stories of the Century (John Updike, ed): Alexander Godin, My Dead Brother Comes to America; Alice Adams, Roses, Rhododendron (Mariner) Taught by Cynthia Weiner
Oct 5: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales (Penguin) Taught by Isabelle Deconinck
Oct 12: Julie Sheehan, Bar Book (Norton) Taught by Julie Sheehan, Introduced by Philip Schultz
Oct 19: Pushcart 2010: Poems by Ted Kooser, Bob Hicok, Maxine Scates, Bruce Smith, Kary Wayson, Carolyne Wright (Pushcart Press) Taught by Sheila Welch
Oct 26: W. S. Merwin, The Shadow of Sirius (Copper Canyon Press) Taught by Philip Schultz
Nov 2: The Book of Luminous Things (edited by Czeslaw Milosz): Li-Young Lee, Irises; Robert Francis, Waxwings; Philip Levine, A Sleepless Night; Zbigniew Machej, Orchards in July; Robert Frost, The Most of It; Robert Creeley, Like They Say (Harvest Books) Taught by Lisa Bellamy
Nov 9: Kate Walbert, A Short History of Women (Scribner) Taught by Kate Walbert, Introduced by Lesley Dormen
Nov 16: Pushcart 2010: Stories : JC Hallman, Ethan: A Love Story; Laura van den Berg, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us (Pushcart Press) Taught by Cynthia Weiner
Nov 23: Narrative Technique (Discuss in Class) Taught by Lesley Dormen
Suggested Reading:
Fiction: Lorrie Moore, A gate at the stairs; Merce Rodoreda, Death in spring; Sam Shepard, Day out of Days; Mary Robison, One D.O.A., One on the Way; Gary Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way; Herta Muller, The Land of Green Plums; Andrey Platonov, Soul: And Other Stories; J.M. Coetzee, Summertime
Poetry: Barbara Hamby, Babel; Barbara Ras, The Last Skin; Joanne Fuhrman, Pageant; Natasha Tretheway, Native Guard; Jill Bialosky, Intruder; Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark; Ilya Kaminsky, Dancing in Odessa; Lousie Glick, A Village Life
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