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Introduction to Fiction and Poetry (IFP)Teaching IFP is a key component of the Master of Fine Arts program here at Johns Hopkins. Through this course, undergraduate students learn the fundamentals of creative writing through assignments in fiction and poetry. Readings from the The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction In addition to the creative assigments, students submit two literary essays. In these essays, they discuss works from the most recent Hopkins Review. The final weeks of the course are dedicated to revisions and workshops, culminating in the submission of the Ten Page Whole Story and a Portfolio of all coursework. Course Reading List |
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Short Stories in Fiction“A Little Cloud,” Joyce, 745 “Babylon Revisited,” Fitzgerald, 548 “Shiloh,” Mason, 1002 “Angel Levine,” Malamud, 910 “In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Burried,” Hempel, 666 “Constant Pain in Tuscaloosa,” Hannah, 634 “Signs and Symbols,” Nabokov, 1165 “The Sorrow Acre,” Dinesen, 429 “Why I Live at the P.O.,” Welty, 1535 “Cathedral,” Carver, 206 "Morpheus," Rossi, 1317 "The Things They Carried," O'Brien, 1188 |
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Poems“In the Waiting Room,” Bishop, 1521 “Digging,” Heaney, 1899 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Eliot, 1340 “Theme for English B,” Hughes, 1434 “620,” Dickinson, 1121 “Church Going,” Larkin, 1649 “Sunday Afternoons,” Komunyakaa, 1951 “They Feed They Lion,” Levine, 1761 “The Purse Seine,” Jeffers, 1322 “Warming Her Pearls,” Duffy, 2007 “14,” Donne, 320 “Design,” Frost, 1240 “130,” Shakespeare, 267 “Those Winter Sundays,” Hayden, 1533 “Why Brownlee Left,” Muldoon, 1979 “The Writer,’ Wilbur (handout) “Decorum,” Dunn (handout) "The Prediction," Strand, 1863 "War Poet," Keyes, 1647 "Grass," Carl Sandburg, 1253 "One Perfect Rose," Parker, 1391 |
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provide additional perspectives on the art of writing. These reading assignments supplement the regular writing assignments (ten total: five poetry and five fiction).