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The Contemporary Poem
Public Group active 1 year, 7 months agoA group for thinking about directions in contemporary poetry
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Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Not Poetry….?, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 3 years, 6 months agoI am also really bad at writing anything that isn’t poetry. Fun fact, my college essay was a poem! I just took the lines out and made it a paragraph. I will never understand why I got into colleges with that! My […]
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Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Not Poetry….? in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 6 months agoOne thing that has me unhappy is that I have already taken two poetry workshops, and therefore need to take a workshop that isn’t poetry. Moving away from what makes me comfortable has always been something I t […]
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Hannah Fahy wrote a new blog post Underwater in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 6 months agoIt’s spring break, and it’s past my bedtime, but I had to write this. I think my blog posts are getting crazier by the second, but stick with me here. What could I do to make my poetry sound like it’s under […]
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Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post If…Write. in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 6 months agoIf you’re leaving for spring break, write about going home. If you’re staying, write on the green about the silver wind. If you’re coming back for the rest of the semester, write to tell us about the haunting […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Perspective Writing/Reading in Poetry, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 3 years, 6 months agoI have no idea if this is anything close to your Great Day presentation, but playing off of perspective, I bet it would be fun to have an item on display – something simple, but hard to recognize; maybe something […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Poetic Obsessions, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 3 years, 6 months agoI think it’s a natural artistic tendency to avoid covering the same subject matter once you’ve already addressed it (as is the opposite, only focusing your efforts on one subject matter). It almost feels like we […]
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Kyle Navratil commented on the post, The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 3 years, 6 months ago“I have a nephew and I absolutely adore this kid. He’s six years old, about yay high and he loves to play. So one day, Jayden and I are in the front yard and we are having a blast. I needed to go inside for a m […]
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Kyle Navratil edited the blog post The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 6 months agoThis past Saturday I delivered a TEDx talk here at SUNY Geneseo and I wanted to post the written transcript for those who couldn’t be there. I will only post the first third on here and then leave the rest as a […]
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Hannah Fahy wrote a new blog post Poetic Obsessions in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 6 months agoI write a lot more than ever gets shown to anyone. I think that’s how it should be, not everything needs to make it to a final draft, the act of writing itself is good to practice. However, I’ve noticed what my […]
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Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Zines in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 6 months agoI’m surprised that in such a savvy course such as this, we’ve somehow totally circumvented the subject of zines. Zines are small, largely individually produced “magazines” (though many, if not most, tend to be […]
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Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Perspective Writing/Reading in Poetry in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 6 months agoSo recently I’ve been in the planning stages of my Great Day presentation and in doing so I’ve believe I have found another source for poetry; what I’m speaking of is perspective. Almost every human being has the […]
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Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Source from Written Works in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 6 months agoI like to think that I have a fairly full and diverse bookshelf, both at college and at home. Some of these titles can easily reflect in my work, some of them can’t. Each has a certain aspect that can be viewed a […]
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Lidabel A. Guzman Avila commented on the post, Poets as Cameras, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 3 years, 6 months agoI read this as I was people watching/doing my homework in the mail room lol. I love the idea of the camera and how a poets embodiment of one can lead to distance. I also struggle with distancing myself from my […]
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Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Poet Ex Machina in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 6 months agoI don’t want to compare poets to machines: spewing out verses like the Lamron printer spews out newspapers. I just mean to express that our brains never stop creating. I have a notes app file dedicated to […]
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Hannah Fahy wrote a new blog post Poets as Cameras in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 7 months agoMy very first class here at Geneseo in fall of 2016 was ENGL 203 Reader & Text: Adaptation & Discipline with Professor Harrison. The class was all about works of literature that are adapted over and over by other […]
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Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Slang, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 3 years, 7 months agoI think this would make such a cool poem! A poem made entirely out of slang terms for sex reminds me of the blonde joke poem we read in class. I hope you choose to write this!
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Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Repressed memories?, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 3 years, 7 months agoI think this is really interesting! I would love to read more on poetry as therapy. I think a lot of poets (especially those who write without the intent of being published) use poetry as a coping mechanism. […]
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Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Slang in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 3 years, 7 months agoSlang as a concept is fascinating – little verbal workarounds and implied connotations to construe a concept. It is not always used for the best means – how many slang terms were created on sexist, racist, […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Art & Poetry, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 3 years, 7 months agoI find it so interesting that Gandy Dancer – among other literary magazines, this is not a Gandy exclusive deal – puts submitted images and poems/prose/etc. next to one another with the implication that they go […]
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Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Repressed memories?, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 3 years, 7 months agoPsychology major here. Don’t worry – the first (and most valuable) concept you learn in psychology courses is that there are no absolute truths and that invariably what you are learning to be true in one class is […]
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