Prof. Susan M. Schultz, Prof. Adam Aitken

Fall, 2010

Kuykendall 214; Kuykendall

Office hours: Wednesday 10-12 and by appointment on T.TR (SMS)

Room 216 Hours - Wednesday, Thursday 10 - 3. Please email to make appointments
adamaitken@optusnet.com.au

There will be four units this semester:

--Philosophical backgrounds (3 weeks)

--Literature & place (4 weeks)

--Small Press Publishing (3 weeks)

--Pedagogy (1 week)

--Two weeks for workshopping your final projects

You are responsible for knowing what's on the syllabus, even as it's likely to change over the course of the semester.

--Attendance: it's crucial that you come to classes because that is where a lot of the thinking will go on.  Come prepared to discuss the material.  You may miss one class without an excuse.  Beyond that, you need one.

--Participation on a class blog.  Write the equivalent of one or two typed pages a week in response to the readings.  End each post with one discussion question for the week.  Get these in one full day before class meets.  You will be invited onto the blog at the very beginning of the course.  Say yes, then send your posts to http://foundations-schultz.blogspot.com
The blog also includes among its "pages" this syllabus, resource materials, and announcements.  Bookmark the blog and look at it frequently.
--Conferences.  Come see me at least once, preferably twice during the semester to talk about your work, my work, our work.

--Presentation on a small press that you choose in the first two weeks of the semester.  Order a publication or two from the press, or ask for review copies.  After interviewing the editor of the press, you'll talk to the class about the press's history, its mission, its marketing and distribution.  You'll also do a reading of something published by the press, either a poem or a short section of a story or an essay.  Come up with a writing exercise based on your sense of the press's mission and style.  If you would like to discuss a press not on the list here, please talk to me early on.

--Final project: a 20 page essay (or its equivalent) presented in the form of a small press booklet inspired by a press you encounter this semester.  The equivalent may be something on the order of 1) a walk (using Kaia Sand's book as a model); 2) a statement of your poetics in mixed genre form; 3) a detailed plan for a course in creative writing.  You will present your work (with students in other 625s) at the end of the semester at a colloquium.
--Extras: attend as many literary events as you can, whether the MIA series in Chinatown (usually on the second Wednesday of the month), the Biography series on campus, colloquia by students and faculty, slam poetry events.  Tell us about them and their relevance to the course on the blog.
--Kokua:

Gizelle Gajelonia, 13 Ways of Looking at TheBus (Tinfish Press)

Craig Santos Perez, from unincorporated territory [hacha] (Tinfish Press)

Hazel Smith, The Writing Experiment (Allen & Unwin)

Jill Yamasawa, Aftermath (Kahuaomanoa Press)

Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects (Duke UP)

William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain (New Directions)

Tuesday, August 24:  Introductions, ambitions (mine, yours).  Exercises!

Tuesday, August 31:  Kathleen Stewart, Ordinary Affects.

Read Plato, Sidney, Shelley, and Bernstein on-line.  Read (Riding) Jackson (xerox)

Plato on poetry, from The Republic, Book X
Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poesie
Percy Byssche Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

Charles Bernstein, "A Defence of Poetry"

Read Wordsworth, Eliot, Brathwaite, Ho`oamanwanui

William Wordsworth, "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads
T.S. Eliot, "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
Kamau Brathwaite, "History of the Voice, 1979-1981" (you can find the pdf on-line by googling the name and the title)
Ku`ualoha Ho`omanawanui, Ha, Mana, Leo (Breath, Spirit, Voice): Kanaka Maoli Empowerment through Literature:[Check in through Project Muse, via the UH library system]

William Carlos Williams, In the American Grain.

Lucy R. Lippard, "Being in Place," from The Lure of the Local (xerox)

Selections from KAILUA, Kailua Historical Society

Ku`ualoha Ho`omanawanui, "'This Land is Your Land, This Land Was My Land': Kanaka Maoli vs. Settler Representations of `Aina in Contemporary Literature of Hawai`i"

Dennis Kawaharada, response to Ho`omanawanui

Find those last two links here on a blog post by Susan M. Schultz

Nandita Sharma & Cynthia Wright on Settler Colonialism.  Find here

Tuesday, October 5: Read sections of books by Craig Santos Perez, Kaia Sand, and Adam Aitken: I will assign sections for small groups of you to work on and become "authorities" on.  Also read Gizelle Gajelonia's chapbook. Craig Santos Perez will be visiting our class; Gizelle Gajelonia will already be there.

Tuesday, October 12: Guests galore! Kaia Sand, Jules Boykoff and Adam Aitken!  Readings, provocations, conversations and food.  Read Boykoff's essay on Sand and Mark Nowak (pdf).

[Wednesday evening at 7:30 attend the M.I.A. reading series in Chinatown.  Readers will include Kaia Sand, Jules Boykoff, and yours truly.]

Achiote (edited by Craig Santos Perez, publishes chapbooks of work by ethnically diverse experimental poets).

Kahuaomanoa (edited by Brandy Nalani McDougall et al, publishes books by graduates of the UH English department)

Dusie Press (Susana Gardner's co-op press)

1913 Press (edited by Sandra Doller in SoCal)

BlazeVox (Geoffrey Gatza, editor: publishes lots of books of various genres by young writers, including at least two who've graduated from UHM)

Singing Horse (Paul Naylor, San Diego), poetry that "is not archly experimental"

Starcherone (Ted Pelton, Buffalo): micro-press fiction publishing

Essay Press (Catherine Taylor et al, Ithaca, NY): experimental non-fiction prose

FC2 (now published via the University of Alabama Press): experimental fiction

Salt (Chris Hamilton-Emery, UK: publishes a huge number of books in all genres)

University of Hawai`i Press (contact person: Masako Ikeda)
Bamboo Ridge Press

Read Hazel Smith's The Writing Experiment

Workshop on your final projects

Workshop on your final projects

Presentation of final projects, debriefing, party!