POETRY PORTFOLIO GUIDELINES

For Monday's class session (28 February), your Poetry Portfolios will be due. All portfolio material must be contained within a pocketed-folder; please, do not use a binder, etc. In the right-side pocket, put your final poems and their previous drafts; in the left-side pocket, put your reviewer's workshop comments. Furthermore, each poem and its revisions must be stapled separately as a group. As such, each stapled, mini-packet will begin with your final draft, followed by each subsequent revision (i.e. final draft, third draft, second draft, and original draft) and any comments you or I have made with regard to the writing process. Finally, for your workshop comments, please have each day's comments stapled separately, beginning with the workshop cover-sheet that has the reviewer and reviewee's names, followed by the hand-written comments, and the poem (if the reviewer wrote comments directly onto the hard-copy). No late assignments will be accepted, so please make sure you attend class and have your completed portfolio with you.

READING: Building Fiction, pages 1-11 and Best American Fiction (2008), pages 22-35.