ENG 206 - Poetry Magazine Production I

Institution:

Connecticut State Community College Asnuntuck

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Description:

Students will work collaboratively and individually on a variety of tasks: organizing initial solicitation of submissions to Freshwater by designing and writing posters and flyers to send to educational institutions, as well as designing advertisements to solicit submissions from the general public; organizing and completing a variety of mailings; working on the preliminary planning of the festival, by analyzing the previous year's event, in order to learn from triumphs and disasters; organizing the annual student poetry contest, whose winners will read at the festival with their work included in Freshwater, including designing a poster and flyer and doing a mailing; preliminary reading and critiquing of submissions to Freshwater; creating and writing acceptance and rejection letters to send in response to submissions; critiquing the magazine, with an eye to improving the next issue; discussing the work of possible workshop leaders for the festival and contacting those poets to invite them to participate; working on the ongoing task of finding funding to support the magazine, through contacting local merchants and organizations for donations, and exploring grant possibilities. Students will also be required to write and revise at least five poems, working in a workshop setting to discuss and critique each other's poems, which will then be submitted for possible publication in Freshwater. (Formerly ENG 240.) Prerequisite: Grade of "B" in ENG* 101 and Permission of Instructor.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.acc.commnet.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 253-3000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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