Online Links for compiling an anthology.

Here's Blackbird. Here's Shampoo. Here's Diode. Here's Fou.
Here's Coconut. Here's Caffeine Destiny. Here's Octopus.

Here's POOL. Here's Perihelion.
Here's The Hamilton Stone Review.

Here's Typo. Here's Bird Dog.
Here's failbetter.

Here's Adirondack Review.

Here is the "exam." Using the above links, compile a journal's
worth of poems, and by journal's worth I mean, 40-50 poems.
Open a WORD document and cut and paste the poems onto it, one
poem per page, the same format we've seen in countless lit mags.
This form of active reading/selecting followed by mechanical action
replicates the process of editing a journal. In essence, you are
exercising taste, you are writing your own emerging aesthetic. The
active part of this makes it stick, gives it concreteness. It's like
learning to shoe a horse by doing it. The problem with writing/
reading is we can do it in an unfocused passive way and still
come away with a faint semblance of a style.

About the links. You can go into the archives on each of these, and
find poems dating back as far as the poems go. Pick from any issue,
etc.

(You can do all this on a blog if you wish.)

In addition to the posting of 40 to 50 poems (poems, not pages),
in notes on the last page, create a list of the 15 poems you like
best in the anthology we used in this class. Just list them by
author and title, number 1 through 15.

In a second "afterword" (an addendum), if you wish, you can make
a second list of poems you like--a kind of Best Of list--containing
just any old poems you have discovered along the way and have
fallen in love with, or at least just LIKE a lot. Keep this list to 20
poems or under (optional).

It's due the class period we meet during exam week.