Answer the following questions in your blog post:
When do you use your voice?
How do you use your voice?
Silence. What is it? How is it useful? Not useful?
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Your blog assignment for 11/21-11/28
Find a "text" (piece of music, fashion, written work, a dance, a TV show, a museum exhibit, etc, etc, etc.) that somehow relates to the themes we've been discussing in class. Describe this "text" and then reflect on it. What do you think about it? Why is it a significant part of our culture?
Writing Exercise from 11/21/07 Class
In my body when a sweet potato sits in the folds of a dress I go to the Super; so many have been with the rough ended dirt and roots that have settled. Fish nets full of women's legs, full of women's fish. All my groceries, fruit filled with underhold. Smell the cilantro green shine. Go to fancy super no longer growing blood and all the vegetables saddled in their boxes coated and capped in foam or plastic in a number of lusty mouthed chemicals which is why I approached this kettle blindly.
Today's Class Meets at...
1013 S. Tyndall (north of 22nd, 1 block east of Euclid, south of Armory Park neighborhood)Here are directions:http://maps.yahoo.com/dd?taddr=1013%2BS%2BTyndall%2BAve&tcsz=Tucson,%2BAZ%2B85719-6637&country=us You should wear clothes comfortable enough for you to bang a drum!Also bring something to write with...notebook/pen.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Our Next Class November 21, 2007
620 E. 19th Street, Suite 150Near 19th and Euclid in long warehouse/storage shed-like facility. Look for suite 150.More info and a map is here:http://www.thedanceloft.com/location.htm
Friday, November 16, 2007
Blog posts you should have so far
1. Body Maps writing based on the "Body Map of My Life" by Bridget Booher which is in the handout that you got in class 10/31/07. (It accompanied all the "You Are Here" maps and excerpts from "This Bridge Called My Back.")
2. I Am What I Am writing based on the poem "I Am What I Am" by Rosario Morales which can be found in the handout that you got in class 10/31/07. It was a part of "This Bridge Called My Back" handout.
3. A response to the reading packet you received 11/07/07 which included the essays "Our Barbies, Ourselves," and "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtian."
4. Post all the in-class writing you've done so far: your "Barbie or Beauty Head" poem/prose piece, your anatomy piece using the word list you developed in class, the writing you did on the first day of class in your accordion book. If you have time, write a new piece splicing together your I am what I am piece with your word list. Use the word list to make interesting/weird metaphors. Don't worry so much about "making sense."
Don't forget to make comments on your classmate's blogs!!
2. I Am What I Am writing based on the poem "I Am What I Am" by Rosario Morales which can be found in the handout that you got in class 10/31/07. It was a part of "This Bridge Called My Back" handout.
3. A response to the reading packet you received 11/07/07 which included the essays "Our Barbies, Ourselves," and "Behind the Formaldehyde Curtian."
4. Post all the in-class writing you've done so far: your "Barbie or Beauty Head" poem/prose piece, your anatomy piece using the word list you developed in class, the writing you did on the first day of class in your accordion book. If you have time, write a new piece splicing together your I am what I am piece with your word list. Use the word list to make interesting/weird metaphors. Don't worry so much about "making sense."
Don't forget to make comments on your classmate's blogs!!
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
I am what I am not; just a little
I am not a race car driver or an idiot. I am not a weapon or a waste can. I am not a fig or any other dried piece of fruit. I don't rot on command. I don't live outside of the work week. I don't walk my dogs enough or change the oil on time. I still haven't filed my taxes. (Shhhh....). I don't spell well. I don't speak up. Enough. I am not a nice guy. I am a girl. A lady. A ma'am. I sleep too much. I am a find. A fine set of binoculars. I am the one who blew out all her birthday candles. I am the one who gets her wish. Swishing in her dishes, I am not the one who does them. This year.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Where did you get that?: Body Map
Bump on the back of the head. It could be a scar of sorts from a fungal infection I had as a child. The only part I remember is the doctor saying she would have to cut the lump off if the cream didn't clear it up. Or, I might have gotten it falling on the ice rink or out of my bunk bed?
Teeth. Crooked on the close-up. Braces, retainer, splint. Templar mandibular joint disorder. The lean-way-back.
Purple gash or line in the palm of my hand. Playing volleyball? Running away from a boy who wanted to kiss me? Either way, my shoes were untied.
Small semi-circle on left thigh. Glue gun. No question about it.
Big mole, I won't tell you where. But it is hairless, hears not, and reminds me of Marilyn. Yes! Her.
Black big-toe. And many of the small ones. Pop-top toenails. Running injury? What did I drop on my foot?
Teeth. Crooked on the close-up. Braces, retainer, splint. Templar mandibular joint disorder. The lean-way-back.
Purple gash or line in the palm of my hand. Playing volleyball? Running away from a boy who wanted to kiss me? Either way, my shoes were untied.
Small semi-circle on left thigh. Glue gun. No question about it.
Big mole, I won't tell you where. But it is hairless, hears not, and reminds me of Marilyn. Yes! Her.
Black big-toe. And many of the small ones. Pop-top toenails. Running injury? What did I drop on my foot?
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