Hi there:
Here is a to-do list for the rest of our group study:
1. Send me your mailing address, to my regular email (jenhofer@gmail.com); I will compile a list and send it out to everyone via FirstClass (or if you prefer I reach you using a different email, feel free to let me know).
2. Finish your chapbook or project, and document the project. It would be great to post documentation (images, text, reflections, etc) to the blog, so future students in this group study can access it.
3. Send your work to everyone in the class via snail mail, and bring or send two copies to the residency. One of those will be given to the BFA Writing Program, and the other to the Goddard Library. The BFA copies should be given to Lucinda; they will live on a special shelf in her office. The Library copies can be given to Dustin Byerly.
4. Write a brief reflection on how the experience of this Group Study project informed your thinking and practice this semester. Please include information about what you found especially useful and/or ways this Group Study might be improved. I think it would be great if we post these to the blog, so we can read each other’s, but if you’d prefer to send your reflection only to me, that’s fine too (either via gmail or via FirstClass).
Due dates: Technically all work for this group study is “due” on December 31. I myself will not be able to finish my book before that date, though I expect to have it done shortly thereafter. If you need a little more time, take a little more time. What do I mean by “a little more time”? Specifically, I mean up to two weeks, but no longer! I will respond to each of your projects individually, but I will not have time to do that after mid-January. Simply put, if you send your project after January 15, I will not be able to write you a response. Likewise, I should receive your reflections about the low-fi publishing experience no later than January 15; I will not accept them after that date.
Showing our work: We pretty much agreed that we’d like to share our work with the larger Goddard community during the spring semester residency. Dee Windsome is the coordinator of the student art show, and I imagine she’d be willing to work with one or more of you to create a space to exhibit our projects as part of the show. I will be on leave during the spring semester, so someone (or someones) from our group should volunteer to be the coordinator or coordinatrix of our exhibition. Any takers? I’m happy to help with legwork in advance (via email), but I won’t be at the residency.
Any further questions? Please ask!
As Robert Creeley used to say, onward!
Jen
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Thank You!
Old Fort Mountain Music is so deeply carved into my heart it is becoming almost impossible to write about without tears. I have the layout of the book, much of the writing complete and some photographs, however scans of all the deceased muscians has been a problem; two of the founding members have passed away in the past two weeks. I am becoming discouraged with my inability to interview/listen to the stories of these performers but I am finding the families are eager to honor them. Thank you for the slight extension.
and Happy Holidays from Creeley, Olson and Cage's old stompin' grounds- Black Mountain. On discouraging days I sit on the steps of Lee Hall and everything seems okay.
-jordan laney
Dear Jordan --
I'm so sorry to hear about the passing of some of the founding members of Old Fort Mountain Music -- though perhaps that fact only illustrates the aptness, urgency and "rightness" of your doing this project at this moment. What a perfect time to commemorate, remember and celebrate this amazing community-based music center.
I get chills thinking of you drawing encouragement from Black Mountain -- amazing! Discouragement is part of the process, and it seems to me that knowing where to go to regain strength and perspective is a huge step in the process of figuring out how to make a life in and of art.
I can't wait to see your book!
Much light in the new year,
Jen
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