List of Four-letter word projects by class and alphabettically by word

Kindly post your final four-letter word projects to your blog.

9:05 class

dump                         – by Garret

fade                         – by Adama A

fire                         – by Tom M

hair                         - by Emily N

help                        - by Taylor H

hugs                         – by Joseph F

joke                         – by Jeremy M

kill                         – by Cameron K

life                         – by Catherine M

life                        - by Parth D

love                         – by Michael V

obey                        - by Matt G

pure                         – by Anthony C

rich                        - by Amanda V

rise                         – by Deeba C

save                         – by Dayna S

team                         – by Jonel B

time                         – by Toni S

10:10 class

blah – by Steven H

book – by Emily K

dive – by Chris O

fall – by Linda L

fall – by Sean W

fire - by Tyler K

home  - by Sydney R

hope – by Briana G

kiss – by Jhenna Z

grow – Jessica S-R

heal – by Kaitlin N

live – by Taylor E

lost  - by Kat D

move – by Irina

play -  by Kaitlyn A

play – by Andrew M

riot – by Leah S

scar – by Ani F

sink – by Justin B

snow – by Kyle B

tear – by Amanda L

12:50 class

best - by Mattia R

door - by Mike B 

envy - by Allen P

feed - by Priyanka J

grow - by Genevieve P

hand - by Anna

help - by Jen W
hold - by Morgan D

lies - by Kelsey B

move  - by Kristin M

play - by Brendan M

pray/prey by Joe S 

rage - by Brianna C

ring - by Jon D

risk - by Vickie J-B 

stop - by Megan A

talk - by Rebecca K

walk - by Chelsea G

work - by Jon F

A dozen by a dozen.... blog post 12 of 12

Read this poem by Ron Koertge; consider his advice to writers; then draft a few paragraphs of your ownd advice for debutante writers taking WSC 001.

“Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?"

Ron Koertge

Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave
your house or apartment. Go out into the world.
It's all right to carry a notebook but a cheap
one is best, with pages the color of weak tea
and on the front a kitten or a space ship.
Avoid any enclosed space where more than
three people are wearing turtlenecks. Beware
any snow-covered chalet with deer tracks
across the muffled tennis courts.
Not surprisingly, libraries are a good place to write.
And the perfect place in a library is near an aisle
where a child a year or two old is playing as his
mother browses the ranks of the dead.
Often he will pull books from the bottom shelf.
The title, the author's name, the brooding photo
on the flap mean nothing. Red book on black, gray
book on brown, he builds a tower. And the higher
it gets, the wider he grins.
You who asked for advice, listen: When the tower
falls, be like that child. Laugh so loud everybody
in the world frowns and says, "Shhhh."
Then start again.

from Fever, 2006
Red Hen Press

A dozen by a dozen.... blog post 11 of 12

Are the four-letter word projects writing?  (What is writing?) 

Or, are they something else -- an argument?  a composition?  an inscription?  something else?

A dozen by a dozen ... Blog post 10 of 12

What is Rodney Jones arguing in this poem?

Hubris at Zunzal

by Rodney Jones June 22, 2009

Nearly sunset, and time on the water

of 1984. Language its tracer.

No image like the image of language.

I had waded out about thigh deep.

Then a shout from the beach.

I held in my hand half a coconut shell

of coconut milk and 150-proof rum

and dumped it white into the waves

when it came on me how sweet it had been,

then the idea I was not finished,

then the act of reaching down

with the idea I would get it back.

A dozen by a dozen ... Blog post 9 of 12

We have been ruminating about various writing spaces and various readerships for the kinds of writing we produce.  Here are my questions for you: 

When you put on text -- as T-shirt (TEXTile), tattoo, and jewelry -- do you really consider that you will have an audience for that text?  (To whom are you writing?  What kind of composition is a text a porter?)

When you use twitter, who do you anticipate is your readership?

And how do the texts we wear and the texts we tweet succeed at making meaning?  (Sub-question:  are these as constrained adn limited as those crayon responses we composed?)

A dozen by a dozen.... Blog 8 of 12

 Transcribe the text of the sample onto your blog.  Do not edit.  (If there are any images provided, describe them briefly in a notes section.)  Return the crayon sample to me.


Be sure to continue commenting on your peers' blog posts!

A dozen by a dozen.... Blog 7 of 12

Consider the material nature of the crayon response you are reviewing -- this is not your own writing!  Is the writer influenced by the writing implement s/he uses?  Is the writer more expressive or less expressive as a result of the physical constraints of the crayoned page?  

Is this writing any good?  How do you know that it is good (or not)?