Poetry Portfolio

At the end of this unit, you will submit a poetry portfolio of your best writing from the last few weeks. Please read the guidelines below. A PDF version is also availab When you are done reading the guidelines, please write down any questions you have or components that are confusing. I will make a post next week to respond to any questions. If you have nothing to ask, please just write “N/A” to acknowledge you have read this.

Submission Guidelines for Poetry Portfolios

Objective: Write three original poems and three revisions. If you are stuck, please lean into the weekly poetry writing exercises.

Poem 1: A persona poem

Poem 2: A poem that highlights imagery

Poem 3: Your choice

Revisions

Revision 1: Take one of the poems youve written and experiment with the line breaks.

Revision 2: Take one of your poems youve written and cut 20% of your words. What words do you

keep? What is expendable? Do you swap out words that can more efficiently fill in the

gap between meaning?

Revision 3: Take one of the poems youve written and offer a radical revision of it. Radical revision

meaning that youve reimagined it in a very different way. Perhaps you change the point-of-view of the speaker. Perhaps you change your diction. Perhaps you change the shape of the poem. Perhaps you begin the poem in the middle. You decide.

**NOTE: You could theoretically do all revisions on the same poem.

The poems should be original work generated from this class. The poems can be any length. Please include only one poem per page. For example, a six-line poem should be on its own page. If a single poem expands to more than one page, that is fine as well.

Your poetry portfolio should include:

____ 6 poems (3 original and 3 revisions)

_____ A 1-2 page paper describing your process. Think about this as a behind-the-scenes look at your thinking process for writing poems. These are some questions you might respond to if youre stuck: What inspired you to write these poems? What kind of revision choices did you make from the rough draft to the final? What were your intentions behind a poem(s) and how did you try to achieve that? Where did you have a lot of fun? Where did you struggle? Anything else? This process paper can be single-spaced.

Submission Process: Please submit on Canvas.

This portfolio comprises 20% of your total grade.

STUDENT NAME: ______________________________________________________________