Creative Writing: Four Genres in Brief

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Cover Title Page Copyright PREFACE: A Few Words to Instructors A Few Things You Should Know about Creative Writing A Few Words about Revision 1 Writing Poetry The elements of poetry The short poem: Three models Gail White, My Personal Recollections of Not Being Asked to the Prom Ruth Stone, Winter Rae Armantrout, Duration Lines and stanzas Meter and rhythm The music of poetry Images, symbols, and figurative language Diction, syntax, and the language of poetry Poetic forms Sonnet Villanelle Rondeau Rondelet Triolet Sestina Cinquain Haiku Pantoum Cento Ghazal Prose poem Getting started writing poetry KICK-STARTS Beginning your poems An Anthology of Short Poems Elizabeth Alexander, House Party Sonnet: ‘66 Sherman Alexie, Basketball Agha Shahid Ali, Postcard from Kashmir Lucie Brock-Broido, Posthumous Seduction Lorna Dee Cervantes, Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races Billy Collins, Nostalgia Elaine Equi, A Quiet Poem Joy Harjo, It’s Raining in Honolulu Brenda Hillman, Shadows in Snow Juan Felipe Herrera, K’s Mother Speaks of Her Years in Kuwait Allison Joseph, On Being Told I Don’t Speak Like a Black Person Joan Naviyuk Kane, Akkumin Qanituq/Swift Descent Jane Kenyon, The Blue Bowl Ted Kooser, Barn Swallows Sarah Lindsay, Origin Teresa Leo, My Friend Asks What I’ve Been Doing Lately, and by This She Means Men Jane Munro, Sonoma Hoa Nguyen, They Sell You What Disappears Naomi Shihab Nye, I Feel Sorry for Jesus Mary Oliver, Crossing the Swamp Deborah Parédez, Bustillo Drive Grocery Molly Peacock, Instead of Her Own Patricia Smith, Listening at the Door Gary Snyder, I Went into the Maverick Bar Charles Simic, My Guardian Angel … James Tate, Teaching the Ape to Write Poems Gloria Vando, new shoes and an old flame David Wojahn, The Assassination of John Lennon as Depicted by the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987 Kevin Young, Rosetta 2 Writing the Short-Short Story The elements of fiction The short-short story: Three models Isaac Babel, Crossing the River Zbrucz Donald Barthelme, The Baby Bonnie Jo Campbell, Rhyme Game Structure and design Creating characters Writing dialogue Setting the scene Deciding on point of view, developing tone and style First-person point of view First-person plural point of view Second-person point of view Third-person limited point of view Third-person omniscient point of view Tense Tone and style Getting started writing the short-short story KICK-STARTS Beginning your story An Anthology of Short-Short Stories Margaret Atwood, An Angel Aimee Bender, Loser T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Hit Man Ron Carlson, A Kind of Flying Raymond Carver, Popular Mechanics John Cheever, Reunion Lydia Davis, The Strangers Dagoberto Gilb, His Birthday Jamaica Kincaid, Girl Lorrie Moore, Referential Joyce Carol Oates, Wolf’s Head Lake Jayne Anne Philips, Solo Dance Ron Rash, The Harvest 3 Writing Short Creative Nonfiction The elements of creative nonfiction Short creative nonfiction: Three models Rebecca McClanahan, Liferower Brian Doyle, Joyas Voladoras David Sedaris, Jesus Shaves Organizing creative nonfiction Telling the truth Creative nonfiction as narrative Character Dialogue Scene setting The poetry of creative nonfiction Imagery and figurative language Diction Sound and rhythm Writing yourself into creative nonfiction Ethics and edicts Getting started writing short creative nonfiction KICK-STARTS Beginning your creative nonfiction An Anthology of Short Creative Nonfiction Diane Ackerman, The Mute Sense James Brown, My Papa’s Waltz Edwidge Danticat, Westbury Court Joan Didion, In Bed Barry Lopez, The Raven Dinty W. Moore, El Toro Rojo Aimee Nezhukumatathil, The Witching Hour John T. Price, The Burnt Plane Gary Soto, First Love Alice Walker, Dreads 4 Writing the Ten-Minute Play The elements of playwriting The ten-minute play: Three models David Ives, Sure Thing Tina Howe, The Divine Fallacy A. Rey Pamatmat, Some Other Kid Structuring the ten-minute play Creating believable characters Writing convincing dialogue Crafting a theme Onstage: The elements of production Stage Sets Props, costumes, and effects Lights Sounds Actors Audience Getting started writing the ten-minute play KICK-STARTS Beginning your play Playscript Format: A Model An Anthology of Ten-Minute Plays Dan Dietz, Trash Anthem Kristina Halvorson, Now We’re Really Getting Somewhere Adam Kraar, Love on the B-Line K. Alexa Mavromatis, Bone China Tracey Scott Wilson, Fairy Tale A Few Words about Getting Your Work Published and Produced A Few Words about Hybrid Creative Writing Sabrina Orah Mark, It’s Dark in There: Confessions of a Prose Poem A Few Words of Farewell GLOSSARY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX