Starting Poetry notebook

I finally decided on a topic for my poetry notebook. I was going to do the beat generation, but I’d also like to include some of my own favorite authors. So bohemians in general.

Poets I want to include:
* Jack Kerouac
* Allen Ginsburg
* William S. Burroughs
* Dylan Thomas
* Robert Desnos
* Charles Bukowski
* Ernest Hemingway
* Ezra Pound
* Jim Morrison
* Hermann Hesse
* Zen poets

This subject is ideal because it is original, broad enough for me to include several authors I’m interested in, and has many obvious (viable) options for artwork.

Also: In my search I found this awesome page about surrealist poetry.

Update: I finished my poetry notebook and it was a smashing success.

Back to School!

I’m finally finished with all my summer assignments and can get back to reading what I want to read! What a novel idea!
Anyway, I’ve promptly gotten started with The House of the Spirits, and am looking forward to going through the list below.

* Istanbul, Memories and the City
* Kiki Strike
* El Indio
* Siddhartha
* The Tale of Genji
* On the Road
* Blood Meridian
* The Kite Runner
* Crime and Punishment
* The Lovely Bones
* The Sun Also Rises
* The Wastelends (Dark Tower, Book 3)
* 1984
* Grendel
* The Bell Jar
* Fast Food Nation
* The Jungle
* Franz Kafka: Short Stories
* Interview with the Vampire (re-read)
* Walden
* Something Wicked this Way Comes
* Life of Pi
* The Secret Life of Bees
* Neuromancer
* A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Summer Reading

Here are the books I’ll be reading for the AP English summer assignment. Out of the titles given, I selected the shortest, yet presumably most interesting, while trying to keep a nice variety. (Strike-through means I finished it.)
* Wuthering Heights
* The Invisible Man
* The Cherry Orchard
* No Exit
* The Sound of Waves
* A Man of the People