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Marina Rancourt commented on the post, Poetic Source with Richard Simmons: Podcasts as Poetic Source, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years ago
I love the idea of using Richard Simmons as a poetic source, in part because it sounds sort of strange and humorous at first, but the work you want to (or will) produce doesn’t have to be limited in that way. A […]
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Marina Rancourt wrote a new blog post Identity as Writers in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years ago
National Geographic posted a short video about the late Yvonne Dowlen. In it, she details the interesting life she led. The path of her skating career is a very sweet one and the video talks at length about what […]
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Marina Rancourt wrote a new blog post Good Reviewing in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years ago
We acknowledged in class that reviewing is in-depth, balanced, and encourages people to look further into a work. While I probably didn’t achieve that with my own writing, I do know of a great example of a review […]
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Marina Rancourt commented on the post, The Comfort of Habit, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years ago
Hey Allison,
Niches can be both comforting and limiting in various ways. I know my niche, which tends to be songs about romantic relationships in some way, shape, or form, can be frustrating a lot. Its easy to […]
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Marina Rancourt wrote a new blog post RUNNNN! in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 1 month ago
I listen to slam poetry because I like being irrevocably moved by a particularly good line or a delivery that leaves me awestruck. So, in layman’s terms, I listen to a lot of sad and/or hopeful-for-the-future […]
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Marina Rancourt commented on the post, “What to Do When a Politician Tries to Fall into Your Vagina Feet First”, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 1 month ago
This was such a great piece, I loved her passionate delivery and the blatant sarcasm. Like Allison said, the sounds she used were great. It reminded me a lot of Dominique Christina’s “The Period Poem,” which I […]
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Marina Rancourt wrote a new blog post Ah, the Great Outdoors (indoors is also nice) in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 1 month ago
I wanted to talk about nature, for some reason. It might have something to do with the slew of foggy forest mountain range photos I’ve reblogged or the sight of mud and dead grass outside my window, but I felt […]
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Marina Rancourt commented on the post, I guess I’ll blog about love…*collective sigh*, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 1 month ago
Hey Grace!
Like you and Juliet, I like those atypical love poems…but I have to say that I am a big fan of sappy ones, too. While reading them isn’t all that great, I find that they are really easy to write. […] -
Marina Rancourt wrote a new blog post Because I Am This Person in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 1 month ago
A couple of weeks ago, I went to Goodwill with my best friend about an hour before they closed, then we drove across the street to watch “A Dog’s Purpose” together and teared up several times. That last part is […]
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Marina Rancourt commented on the post, the art of “suck”: a poet’s eternal question, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 1 month ago
The struggle is real. A lot of my poems, especially ones I don’t immediately see “good” in or ones that feel like they need a lot of revision, give off that ugly baby/parasite vibe. I think embracing our work for […]
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Marina Rancourt wrote a new blog post Faith in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 1 month ago
Thanks to a subscription to Rattle: Poetry, I get some great poems sent to my email. Recently, on the 25th of this month, I had the pleasure of reading the poem below by Leila Chatti. In a brief blurb after the […]
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Marina Rancourt commented on the post, “Good Bones” by Maggie Smith, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 1 month ago
This is definitely a good poem to consider in light of the recent political change and general atmosphere. Moreover, the speaker–as Juliet said–talks of the shielding vs. sheltering dynamic that parents […]
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Marina Rancourt commented on the post, My s*** is all over the place, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 2 months ago
When I read “scores to movies I haven’t ever seen,” I immediately thought of the film Amelie. I am unsure whether or not you have seen it, but I highly recommend it if you have not. The film examines a couple o […]
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Marina Rancourt commented on the post, Sources I turn to…, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 2 months ago
Going off of your post, it is clear that family and heritage is very important to who you are as a person and a writer, from what I gathered from the interactions you described. When looking for sources that […]
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Marina Rancourt edited the blog post Expression and Understanding in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 2 months ago
Poetry has always felt intimate to me as I mainly use it to express and explain my inner thoughts and feelings. My work tends to be driven by my emotions and the way I analyze (or overanalyze) them. In that sense, I’d say the main source for my writing is really just my interest in balancing and understanding myself in relation to essentially e…[Read more]
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Marina Rancourt joined the group The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 2 months ago
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Marina Rancourt became a registered member 7 years, 2 months ago