On the results from last week's critical writing assignment:

This post is to draw your attention to the excellent answer Josh Reed wrote to last week's assignment in critical writing. I've commented to Josh on his blog, if you care to read, but the upshot is that his letter exactly captures the spirit of this kind of critical inquiry and response: it is a very open-ended kind of approach to asking about the poem via serious questions cued to specific things in the poem; it is well thought-out, and written without a lot of overly judgemental, received assumptions about what a poem is or should be. It takes the poem and the critical path seriously. Please have a look and note how it works.

Congratulations, Josh.

chris murray

Group Blog: what it is

Hi Y'all--

This is a shared blog where anyone on the password list (I've started sending out invitations to all of you) can create a post. Hopefully that will be poems and other related writings in the course. It's also good as a discussion forum, in the way that a listserv is. Let's see what we can make of it. Thanks!

Chris Murray

-- "Writer's Block," courtesy Rona Conti's Hand made paper.com