Extra Credit: Scissortail Creative Writing Festival


Remember, no class this Friday: instead, you have the option to go to the Scissortail Creative Writing Festival.  Here is a link to the schedule of readings: http://ecuscissortail.blogspot.com/2015/01/2015-scissortail-schedule-of-readings.html

Attend at least ONE session and respond to the questions below either on this post or bring it to class next week.  You must answer ALL the questions for the extra credit, not just 2 of 4 as usual!  :)

QUESTIONS FOR SCISSORTAIL SESSION:


1. Discuss the manner in which one of the authors presented his/her works.  How did he/she read it, perform it, or explain it?  How did this help you appreciate the work or understand it?  Would you have responded to it the same way if you had encountered it in a book? 

2. How do you feel the three works on the panel worked together?  Were there any similar themes, subject matter, ideas, or points of view?  Did one work help you understand another?  Or did they clash in an interesting way?  Why do you think these works were presented together?

3. How did the poet(s) read their works differently than the prose writer(s)?  How does poetry read differently than prose (novels, stories, etc.)?  Which performance did you find most interesting—the poetry or the prose?  Why?  Do you think it would be the same on the page?

4. Discuss one of the works that you responded strongly to—either with surprise, love, admiration, or even disgust.  Why did the work evoke this response from you?  Did other people in the audience seem to respond/react the same way?  Did the author want this response—or do you think he/she might be surprised by it? 

Comments

  1. How many sessions can we respond to for credit?

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    1. You can only respond to one session for extra credit. I don't want to give you too much extra credit! But don't worry, there's plenty of work left this semester to do to push your grade toward the light side.

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  2. 1. She read poetry, and made you feel every line, with the way she delivered it. Every line had a dramatic flair to it. It would not have been the same if I had read the same poems from a book.

    2. I went to the very last session, there was only one author.

    3. I only got to hear one poet because I went to the last session.

    4. I loved the opening poem that she read, because it got me to thinking that literally none of our words are our own. They all come from someone else.

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  3. 2. I believe all styles were different, the approach, the type of poetry and the mood of the poems.
    3. The african american lady was my favorite. She had a very unique style. If you just read the poem, you would not get the same experience as if you had heard it from her in person.
    4. The african american lady had a poem about sex. It was funny to me, because no one really caught on to what she was talking about. We both made eye contract, she saw she me smirk a little bit, she smirked back, so I'm sure thats the reaction she was expecting.

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  4. Darryn York (the one above this is mine too)

    1. Karla K. Morton presented her work in a very sentimental way. She read it in such a way that connected with the audience because she read it with inspiration and with admiration. You could hear the passion in her work thru her voice. It helped me appreciate the work by understanding that reading something and hearing it read poses differently because when one reads something it's interpreted in a different way than how the author probably read it.

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