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Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, My Relationship with the Ampersand, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 2 months ago
The ampersand is cool for pairing things specifically–since it takes up less space, your eye doesn’t have to go as far. For example, if you pair “ducklings & boots,” they seem to go together as a unit/have a […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Favorite Author, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 2 months ago
I loved Ellen Hopkins in high school (& even to this day)–I would always try & track down new books of hers when I knew they had come out. People always groan when they have to do the “poetry unit” in high […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 5 months ago
For another one of my classes, we were assigned chapters out of a book called Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, and it’s sparked […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 5 months ago
Up until the most recent year, I used Twitter as a purely fun platform, Tweeting about the most inane things (read: weird things that happen to me, observations about my day, lots of whining, etc.,). Once I began […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, I for One Welcome Our New iPhone Overlords, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 5 months ago
I think this is awesome! I love the poems you guys created with it too! Makes me wonder what my saved words are! (Although interestingly it will never save swear words/will always autocorrect them.)
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Eight Weeks In, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
I definitely feel like I’ve been pushed to explore form & punctuation more this semester. I want to do a tight little compact poem like Romy’s and a poem that plays with movement like your last workshop piece! I […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
One thing I’ve always been unsure of is how someone goes about writing a poem (or any other work) with another person. So when Lucia suggested we try and do a collaboration, I was all for it. Our poems often end […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
Towards the beginning of this semester, I was asked to do a translation for Gandy Dancer; that is, to pick a German poem and translate it into English. It felt at the time (and still feels) like a daunting task, […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
Punctuation in poetry is like a whole different language. I remember during Poetry I, people suggested I use em-dashes or colons in place of words like “but,” “because,” “then,” etc. It was a way to earn yourself […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, I’m Scared of Poetry! Help! , on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
I agree with Ethan–you are a strong poet (sorry for the pounce after fiction class last Friday where I fangirled about your workshop poem for tomorrow). I remember freaking out about the same thing last fall when […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Finding the Time, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
I’m still really proud of us all (& especially you) for doing the GREAT Day reading. 🙂
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
One of my friends today mentioned that one of her plans for tonight was sitting down with a glass of wine and poem revisions.
I all but howled in longing. (I think I actually gave a quiet moan and put my head […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Childhood Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
Oh, I’m sure I have some horrible & dramatic/teen angsty love poems stored in a journal somewhere. (I would happily burn all poems my thirteen year old self wrote.) I’ll check when I go home on break!
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Writing about Things that Don’t Interest Us., on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 6 months ago
I love that idea about writing about the mundane–look at WCW, the master of the mundane. Look at his poem: “This is just to say//I have eaten/the plums/that were in/the icebox//and which/you were […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 7 months ago
One of my favorite parts of workshop is the community that gets built around that particular class. It’s an opportunity to see what other people are doing/trying out/thieving from other people. And because trust […]
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Poetry Inspiration, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 7 months ago
Weird facts = the best poems.
Tumblr is a goldmine for weird/random facts & I have a whole document of bizarre facts on my computer. I had about eight tabs open on my computer the other day, trying to write a […] -
Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Slam Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 7 months ago
Katie:
One of my favorite slam poems: “If I had A Daughter” by Sarah Kay.
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Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 7 months ago
My German professor decided to start our literature class off with a whimper, not a bang this semester. By this I mean we opened with poems. In German. I’ve noticed that in many of my [English] literature classes, […]
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