Megan Grant
@meg143562 Active 5 years, 10 months ago-
Megan Grant commented on the post, Epilogue: Personal Notes to My Fellow Poets, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 10 months ago
You are the sweetest human. Thank you for your thoughtful notes all semester.
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Megan Grant commented on the post, Being Original, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 10 months ago
Tbh I’m not sure if anything is 100% original anymore. Creative Writing Club was going to read a few poems from a certain poet who I will not name, but apparently that poet was accused of plagiarism. Long story […]
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Megan Grant wrote a new blog post Not Your Story (there’s a question for you to answer at the end) in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 10 months ago
I’m gonna keep this vague: a very sad-and-complicated(TM) thing happened to a friend of mine, and I started writing a poem about it. I’m not trying to take on my friend’s perspective in the poem; I’m writing as […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, Dream poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 10 months ago
You wanna talk about dreams? Let me tell you something about my dreams:
My dreams are the fucking worst.
I am so envious of your poet dream. I truly hope that you get a few good poems out of your dreams […]
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Megan Grant edited the blog post Kendrick, Pulitzer, & Responding to Dotun Adebayo, or A Thing Megan Is Not Qualified to Talk About Pt. 3 in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months ago
Last summer, in an attempt to be seen as “cool” by my mentees in Geneseo’s Access Opportunity Summer Scholar’s Program (AOP), I listened to Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN., a new album they all had been listening to and discussing.
And then I listened to it again.
And again.
I didn’t listen to DAMN. repeatedly because I was hooked; I listened to it for compr…
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Megan Grant commented on the post, Collaborative Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 11 months ago
I hear you in that collab poetry would be an interesting thing to try; I’m also a bit skeptical. The chain poem idea is an interesting one for a writing exercise, but how does one go from there? How do you edit […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, Julia’s Favorite Things…, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 11 months ago
1. Your blog posts are my fave.
2. So, like, I listened to “The Glass Castle” via Audible, and holy shit it was a journey! It seemed kinda slow at first, but the fact that it takes its time in unraveling […]
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Megan Grant wrote a new blog post A poem in a psychology paper? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months ago
Guys, I found a poem! No, it’s not a “found poem,” in that I constructed it. I literally found a poem in Dr. Merrilees’ 2014 research!
Some context: Dr. M is a Psychology professor here at Geneseo. She is al […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, i, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 11 months ago
Two blog posts in one day? Have you just finished writing a paper or are you procrastinating writing a paper (or neither; that’s just how I think when I see someone posting stuff)?
If I’m interpreting this […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, Putting My Skills To The Test//Writing and Confrontation, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 11 months ago
Wow. THIS is why English majors exist. I’m thinking back to that blog post you wrote about your Psych major friends who didn’t understand your poetry, and how this the exact opposite of that experience. I don’t […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, Publishing Roulette, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 11 months ago
Gabi, I have so much frustration with publishing. I am screaming. Obviously you’re right about the whole “the value of a written work is not determined by its publication status,” but oh my god I hate […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, Revision Blues, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 11 months ago
Howdy!
Although I’m particularly bad at taking criticism in real life, I take it better in workshop settings (although the person I cry to at the end of every Monday might say otherwise). But it’s so rewarding […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, What Keeps Me Writing? What Keeps You Writing?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 11 months ago
*snaps*
That breakup analogy is kinda brilliant. Good job.Yeah, writing is one of those empowering activities where a person can make any event or circumstance their own. And it shuts off that broken record […]
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Megan Grant wrote a new blog post When An Unfinished Poem Is Published…? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months ago
I have found myself in a bit of a pickle.
I sent the same draft of a poem to two poetry knowledge bases: my poetry workshop and Chrissy Montelli (Geneseo alum, poet, close friend). See, I was hoping to get […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, “English is the BEST major,” Maria Lima screams in her Brazilian accent., on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 11 months ago
Yes! A major doesn’t define your path! And the skills you acquire are the end goal, not the grades! Woo!
(Granted, grad school is not in my near future, so I can say “fuck grades” pretty […]
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Megan Grant wrote a new blog post The 11 Things That Occur When You Fall In Love With A Poet in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 12 months ago
You verbalize thoughts as haikus because it makes him laugh.
You prod him to reveal his new poems to you, but he doesn’t because he “wants them to be a surprise.”
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Megan Grant commented on the post, Not Doing it Justice, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 12 months ago
1. Yes, I do feel this way. #bigmood
2. Well, love poems make me nervous. I have to make them as original as possible, since “love” is such a popular subject. I’m working on one right now, so y’all will be […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, on the urge to explain, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 12 months ago
That worry about people “not getting it?” Dear god I feel that often, especially in this class. For me, it’s tough to know if people are not getting it or if I’m not poem-ing effectively. Like, are people […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, On the fear of being obscure, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 12 months ago
That was hella vulnerable. Good for you.
It’s unfortunate that people who are not us like to give us labels. Really, we should be labeling ourselves, but it’s difficult once we have reputations to live up to. […]
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Megan Grant commented on the post, Emotional Frustration in Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years ago
I feel your emotional frustration, especially regarding how to express what you feel in words when music expresses it best. I also sing, and I believe that a cappella music is one of the most emotionally and […]
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