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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Reliving Trauma in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 11 months ago
During my Great Day presentation, someone asked me an interesting question that I wanted to pose to the rest of the poetry community:
“Do you feel you are reliving your trauma by reading past poems you’ve […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Photos from Great Day! in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 11 months ago
I never got to post these! Here are some photos from my great day presentation on trauma as a source of poetry!
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Poems I want to Share because Sharing Poems is Cool in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years ago
Hello, my lovely poetry lovers,
I stumbled across several poems while going through the “poems of the day” in my email that I let pile to embarrassing numbers, and I just wanted to share my favorites with you! […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post More Art and a Writing Exercise in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 1 month ago
I want you to look at this painting:
I don’t love this painting. It is by no means my favorite. But every time I see it, I find myself drawn because it’s the best example of the middle finger to all of col […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Art as Source in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 1 month ago
Does anyone have forms of art that they do that they feel less attached to?
For me, it’s painting, which I do when I’m less into what my brain seems to view as forms of art I’m more attached to (e.g. writi […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Love/Hate Relationship with Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 1 month ago
And then Amanda realizes she hasn’t contributed to this blog in, like, a month…
I’ve had a weird love/hate relationship with poetry—and with most forms of art—the past few weeks. I love them, but creating […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Painting instead of Writing in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 2 months ago
Hello, all
I’ve been struggling to find something to write about in this post… mostly because I’ve been struggling to write anything this past week. I’ve been on an artistic binge, which is always great, but […]
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Amanda Ameen commented on the post, I can walk in other people’s shoes, but I think it’s wrong to write in them, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 3 months ago
Prose and poetry, first thing I think of: Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski. Read it, love the themes of life and people, be warned of the misogyny … because there’s misogyny.. great poet. Shitty guy. […]
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Amanda Ameen commented on the post, Sparks, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 3 months ago
Hi David. You and I have a lot in common.
When you mentioned mental illness, a lot of writers came to mind, but I think you would like Pamela Spiro Wagner’s “We Made Climb Shaky Ladders.” The collection covers […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Transitions in Source Material in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 3 months ago
I joked a few times last semester that all of my poems were about rape and sexual abuse, which even I got sick of by the end of the semester—so this idea of exploring the sources of our poetry is so important a […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Hashtags in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months ago
I’m not sure if this has been discussed on this blog, or if this is even a conversation that deserves a post on this blog, but we’ve had several conversations, both in and out of class, on the role of the poet […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post The Duty of the Writer in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago
I know that this idea has been discussed so many times, both on here and in class, but it’s still on my mind, so I figured it’s something worth bringing up again:
As a poet/writer, do we have a duty to write […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: Changing the Perspective in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago
Go through a handful of your past poems and try to identify one or two (or more, if you’re feeling ambitious!) works/techniques that you use most often. Re-write one of your poems without using this technique in […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Can’t vs. Can not in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago
So, for those of you who don’t know, I’m an intern at a drug rehab center. Basically, my job is to follow whatever unfortunate therapist got stuck with me for the day, sit in on their group and therapy sessions, […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Therapy or Meaning in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago
This past Friday, I spent the night collaborating on an art project with a buddy of mine, something we’ve been promising ourselves we’d do for rhe past several weeks. We thought it’d be fun, seeing as his mediums […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post The Truth Behind a Poem in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 6 months ago
A comment in our last workshop reminded me of a question Dr. Asher once asked us in our Philosophy and Literature course a year or two ago (side note, great class. Highly recommend). He put forth a poem about a […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post A Rant from a Writer and a Social Worker in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 6 months ago
While I am open about my double major in my writing classes and do include on my resume that I study both creative writing and psychology and ultimately become a LCSW (you’d be amazed how many social w […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post The Writer vs. The Actress in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 7 months ago
My best friend and I have grown up in artistic households. Both of our mothers are writers, painters, and musicians, and encouraged the two of us to follow in their paths. Today, my friend is an actress and a […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post A Train of Thought in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 7 months ago
For the past few months, I’ve been struggling with the topics in my writing which my brain has been leading me to (if that made any sense at all). I feel I write too much about specific aspects of my life that, at […]
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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post The Language of Poets and Philosophers in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 7 months ago
While reading the piece on image by Philip, I found myself thinking of something my German professor said on the first day of our 101 class a couple of years ago—That German is the language of poets and p […]
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