What are your purposes and goals for this project? Our purpose for this project is to learn not only the more in-depth complexity of the organic poetry form but also to recognize how it contributes to the role of intimacy, as shown by Sappho and Charles Olson. We want our listeners to be able to make connections between the form and how its unstructured format alludes to unstructured representations of topics such as intimacy.
Who is your audience? Our audience is those who like poetry and may also be feminists or simply admirers of intimacy. They may also be historians studying ancient poetry, in the case of Sappho, or more contemporary-based poetry readers, such as in the case of Olson.
What is your context? Two poems, one by Sappho, written in ancient Greece, and one by Olson, a contemporary writer. We explain the difference between male/female poets and their individual takes on intimacy and why they chose organic poetry.
How do these factors play a role, and what and how you will compose? As we are both women, we will have to thoroughly explain the side of Olson and his viewpoints while not having a biased understanding. We must also remember the differences and similarities between ancient and contemporary poetry.
Genre
What genre are you composing in? Education, history, romance
What rhetorical strategies must composers use to identify their good writing as a piece in that genre? Reflection on the different periods of poetry, courage talking about intimacy
What are some of the “optional” rhetorical moves people make in the genre? Some may urge action regarding different perspectives of intimacy regarding women and men, which may encourage men to focus less on their sexual desires or ways of viewing women. In our podcast, we aren’t trying to urge anyone to change their views; we provide information on the matter.
Structure and organization
What structure might you imagine for this audio project? A dialogue conversation with brief intermissions of audio recordings and music
How might you organize your content? Begin by discussing Olson and his piece, his way of discussing intimacy, and how he incorporates organic form and then switches over the Sappho and how her view is contradictory.
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Audio assets
What kind of audio do you need to collect? Recordings of Olson and Sappho, if any exist, possible intimate music entries, recordings from the period of second-wave feminism
Where and how will you collect these audio assets? Internet research, historical/ poetical archives, YouTube
How and where will you organize these assets? Have a thorough conversational dialogue that leads into the playing of audio, once stopped we recap on what we just listened to and continually repeated throughout the podcast
Deadlines
What do you need to get done, and by what date? Final Project Step 1 (April 3rd), Writing Project Plan Assignment (April 3rd), Introduction Revision Assignment (April 5th), Step 2 (April 7th), Step 3 (April 14th), Notes Assignment (April 26th), Final Project Due (May 1st)
What days and times will you devote to this project? We will spend each class period on Mon/Wed/Fri on this project and some weekend work time.
The Journalist’s questions
Who will contribute to the project and support you in composing it? My partner and I, Jordan, the recording team for the radio show, and my professor, Mr. Belflower!
What do you need to know and gather? Background information on Sappho and Olson, their periods, organic poetry, how the display of intimacy in poetry is used, and how it has altered
When is it due, and when will you carve out time to do it? The final project is due on May 1st, my partner and I will work on it Mon/Wed/Fri and possibly some weekends.
Where will it be heard, and by whom? Yes, it will be aired on the IN FORM radio show next semester; there are as many as 3,000 listeners.
Why is this project important? Because it not only teaches individuals about a new form of poetry often overlooked, but it references essential poets of the ancient and contemporary times and how views of intimacy shift between a man and woman
How will you carry out the various aspects of the plan? We will continue to gather information and sources, work on our rough script, and find different audio pieces that work into our dialogue.
