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Future minutes will be posted on our ANGEL group. If you would like to be added to that
group, please contact Dr. Ford or Mr. Masucci.
Minutes of Oct. 5th meeting (taken by Sharon):
Started: noon
Ended: 12:52
- For Fall Ball, we will take on the
1920s as our decade.
- We will create an “exquisite corpse”
for our production, putting random scenes together
- Ray McNiece will mc our multi-college slam
- FGCU has invited us to be part of
their open mic on Oct. 23rd
- Nov. 3rd at 2:00, Philosophy Club will host a Native
American speaker
- For the service project, we will
provide writing help to Venice HS
- Sandwich Boards: possibly purchase them with
elektraprhog help?
Minutes of Sept. 14th meeting:
Started: 12:00
Ended: 12:45
In attendance: Adam, Kat, Emily, PJ, Taylor, with advisors
Dr. Ford and Mr. Masucci
We discussed:
- Plans for Club Rush and made sure
tables were covered
- Changing name of Swampside Poetry to
Swampside Readings as a way of broadening appeal
- Affirmed plan to hold a multi-college
slam and to have national slam poet, Ray McNiece mc the event and judge.
Minutes of Aug. 31st meeting taken by Sharon
Started: 12:03
Ended: 12:57
Next meeting: 9/14 at noon in 333
We discussed:
- Club Rush ideas: Slam Battle, Whose Line Is It Anyway-type games
- New Swampside Poetry dates: Sept. 24, Oct. 22, and Dec. 3rd
(for 123Slam!)
- New officers elected (see elsewhere on
this page)
Minutes of 2/23 Meeting (taken by Jeremiah):
We discussed:
- fliers for the poetry contest (thank
you Taryn!)
- announcing the winners of the contest
at swampside poetry
- spring fling (March 11th)
and possible games
- Alligator wrestling
- Bringing in Linda Behling as a special
guest to swampside poetry
- More alligator wrestling
- Carpooling to the Mystery Train on
Saturday
- Next meeting: March 9th
Minutes of 2/9 Meeting (taken by Sarah Ward)
- Taryn opened the meeting at 2:30 by asking for ice breakers, so Phil
read one of his poems
- Taryn recapped the Swampside Poetry
event that was held the previous Thursday.
- Dr. Ford read “This Is Just to Say” by
William Carlos Williams
- We established the criteria for a
contest to follow a similar word choice and style of the preceding poem
- Entries will be due March 9th. Send entries to Dr. Ford
- Prizes will include gift cards for 1st,
2nd and 3rd prizes
- Service project for a water pump in Africa can be tied in to a swampside event
- Jenni read a poem by R. Frost
- Mystery Train trip is scheduled for
Feb. 28, with a time to be determined
Minutes of 1/26 meeting by Jenni
- We decided to have everyone bring a
poem or story to read during our next meeting
- We discussed Club Rush and plans to
have Taryn, Jenni, AJ, and Ford man the table at different times
- Taryn will offer Tarot readings at
club rush
- Taryn will work on decorations for a
table
- We’ll plan on going on the “mystery
train” in Feb.
- Our next meeting will take place on
Feb. 9 at 2:30
Minutes of 10/29 meeting by Chris Mitchell
*Open Mic - 10:30am
which is on Tuesday the 4th. We need to remember to put a bucket at the open
mic, so donations can be made for a children's fund.
*It seems like our living wax museum idea has become something optional.
Students are welcome to do it they wish and can be done at anytime on campus
for that day.
*Ray Mcniece will be in the Selby Room on Wednesday, Nov. 12th at 12pm, everyone needs to bring their least favorite poem to
read as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc6-3uPHxKs
*Our next meeting will not be until Wednesday, November the 12th at 12pm. I'm assuming we are just going to the Selby Room?
*Jenny made the suggestion of talking about Poetry more
often which I couldn't agree more with. I much rather talk about and read
poetry for the majority of class than coordinate dates and times for various
events.
Minutes of 10/21 meeting by Prof. Culpepper
1. Our president, Christy V., will not be back this
semester for health reasons, so our vice-president, Sarah, will be running
the meetings.
2. Scary fashion show is tentatively scheduled for
Thursday, Oct. 30, around 7 p.m., but
we need to make sure people are actually planning to participate.
3. We need to complete plans for Arts and Letters Day
open mic, the "Living Wax
Museum"
service project, and fall ball.
4. Student club help is needed with the VOTE sculpture.
Can we recruit some Scribes to help?
5. Poor attendance at meetings is getting to be a problem
Present: Sarah, Christy H, David, Prof. Ford, Prof.
Culpepper
Minutes of 10/14 meeting by Prof. Culpepper
1. Voted to extend wedding poem and fashion poem
deadlines until Oct. 20 and give bookstore gift cards as prizes.
2, Will check with Earl from library about mic for
Swampside Express.
3. Mystery Train will be doing another show in January if
we want to do that next semester.
4. David Kayashima has agreed to emcee Swampside Express.
Attendees: Adam, Christy H., Prof. Ford, Prof. Culpepper
Minutes of 10/8 meeting by Chris Mitchell
1. For fall ball coming up, we had 3 ideas that we
seriously considered:
*A superhero theme
*A pagan theme (which I am in absolute favor for. It's very original,
practical, inexpensive, and has a lot of creative potential)
*A mayflower theme (people can dress up as indians and we eat turkeys, apple
pies, roast corn, wear feathers, sell candy apples or something)
2. The next two swamp scribe meetings will be held on Tuesday.
3. Next Swampscribe meeting, we need to discuss which characters we plan to
be for Living Wax
Museum.
4. Mister Ford wanted me to remind him to put the microphone in the
ampitheatre for the open mic on Arts & Letters or Fall Day. Are fall day
and arts & letters on the same day?
5. The Art Club is making a big Vote sculpture, all MCC
students are welcome to decorate it with pictures, poetic phrases, etc.. Just
be sure to not cover anyone else's work on there.
6. The fashion show is planned for Thursday, October 30th, at 8:00pm.
7. I should have made a better note of this one. All I wrote down was
"give food to McNiecce". If anyone knows who McNiecce is, we are
supposed to give her food.
People who attended last meeting:
1. Chris Mitchell
2. Anthony Smithingell
3. Jerry
4. Dustin
5. Mister Ford.
6. Christy Vazquez
7. Not Mister Culpepper
Minutes of 9/30 meeting by Chris Mitchell
Not much happened at the last meeting, basically we just
said that Nov 4th is both Arts & Letters Day as well as Living Wax Museum
Day. For Living Wax Museum Day, you dress up as your favorite character (it
can be anyone, it doesn't have to be a literary character) and people will
put money into your bucket to hear you talk. Your bucket will have your
characters name on it and when they drop money in, you will say something
that relates to your character in some way.
Christy also reccomended that we donate money to a school for the blind. I
forgot how or where we were getting the money, but I'm sure Ford knows.
On monday, I will be giving my Fashion Show posters to Ford. I have 25 of
them.
Minutes of 9/23 meeting by Chris Mitchell
\1. We need to come up with a motto and a logo for the
club
2. In place of our poet not being able to make it, we will be doing something
different instead for the 30th event:
Each member of the audience will be asked to write one line of poetry onto a
piece of paper. They can write whatever they want as long as it is one line.
We will pass a box or Culpepper's hat around the audience so each person can
put their line in. We'll mix up all the lines in the box and have 10 or so
people from swampscribes each randomly pick a line from the box. After our 10
people have each gotten a line, they will get together on stage and create a
poem using only the lines they picked from the box.
3. Christy reccomended we bring food, drinks, etc to the 30th event.
4. The Halloween Writing Contest will be called "The Fashion Show From
Hell". Contestants need to write a horror/spooky story. People who
submit stories will be encouraged to dress up as a character from their story
for a fashion show that will most likely be held on the 31st of October.
We need pictures of the event so we can add them to the anthology. The
deadline for story submissions will be Oct. 17th.
5. The deadline for the Wedding Poem Contest is also on October 17th. The
contest is looking for funny/sweet poems about the coming together of two
people in love. The groom is a Charter Boat Captain who loves to fish in his
sparetime, it is especially important to the bride that you try to
incorporate this somehow into your poem. They are getting married on the 29th
of November.
6. Adam is making the posters for the Wedding Poem Contest & Chris is
making the posters for the Halloween Writing Contest.
7. The next swampscribes meeting will be next Tuesday in Room 331 at 2pm.
Minutes of 9/17 meeting by Chris Mitchell
*Linda Berring has been considered for the 9/30 Swampside
Poetry Event
*I, Chris was nominated by Mister Ford to be the master of ceremonies for our
9/30 Swampside Poetry Event. I personally think that AJ or even Mister
Culpepper would do a better job at presenting than I would, I'm not the most
comfortable person when it comes to speaking in front of groups of people.
But if Ford insists I go through with it, then so be.
*We discussed people doing fewer poems at a time to allow for everyone to be
given a chance on stage.
*We are having a wedding poem contest for a fisherman who is marrying a
woman. They both have kids from prior marriages. We talked about putting all
the leftover poems in our anthology as well. Entries due the 17th of October,
they will be getting married on the 29th of November.
*It was suggested that our poet (most likely Linda Berring) speak during the
middle of the poetry readings instead of at the beginning or end of the
event.
*Someone told Mister Ford that he should offer extra credit to his students
who offer work to Elektraphog.
*Our president, Christy. Reccomended that we spend our money on Mystery
Dinner Train Theatre in Fort
Myers.
*Adam mentioned us creating an artistic mural on a wall in honor or
representation of the group.
*It was reccomended we meet in room 331 an hour or so before the event on the
30th to prepare, talk, and discuss what were going to do, etc.
*For Halloween. We talked about having a Urban Legend Contest and Jeanelle
came up with the idea of having a Scary Fashion Show.
Minutes of the Sept. 9 meeting by Dr. Culpepper
Opened nominations for club officers. Received
nominations as follows: President: Christy Vazquez; Vice President: Sarah
Ward; Secretary/Treasurer: Chris Mitchell; Anthologist/Historian: Sheena
Chatterjee. Additional nominations to be mailed to Dr. Culpepper or Dr. Ford
by noon Friday, Sept.
12. Voting procedures to be explained after nominations received. Will be
electronically, but paper-ballot option will also be provided for the
technologically challenged and/or averse.
Set tentative
dates for activities:
Swampside
Poetry, Tuesday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m., Student
Union
Swampside
Express, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1 p.m., location TBA
123 Slam,
Thursday, Nov. 20th, 7 p.m., Student
Union
"Living Wax Museum" service
project and open mic for Arts & Letters Day, Nov. 4.
Visiting poet
Ray McNiece, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 1 p.m., details TBA
Received updates
on Swamp Scribings anthology from last year (it's under way) and new literary
magazine Elektraphrog (submission guidelines to be announced within the next
week or two.
Members
Present: Christy V., Christy H., Chris, E'Lyssa, David, Sheena, Max, Adam;
advisors Ford and Culpepper
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