Form: At least 20 lines of free verse.

Theme: Any. If you need help getting a start, try one of the following:

• Rules for a children's game 
• Someone speaking from beyond the grave 
• The world underneath this world 
• A day in the life of a poet whose work you admire 
• Trying to get lost 
• Inviting a friend to supper 
• Someone speaking from the deck of the ship in the bottle. 

Readings:

C.K.Williams, Alzheimer's: The Wife
Wright, A Blessing
Creeley, I Know a Man
Whitman, A Noiseless Patient Spider
Berryman, The Dream Songs #29
Nussbaum, Oedipus the King
W.C. Williams, from Spring and All
Sexton, The Room of My Life
Bidart, Love Incarnate
Bishop, In the Waiting Room


Questions for analyses 

Class poems for discussion