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Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, My Relationship with the Ampersand, on the site The Contemporary Poem 11 years, 6 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 11 years, 6 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 11 years, 10 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 11 years, 10 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 11 years, 10 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 11 years, 10 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 11 years, 10 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 11 years, 11 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 11 years, 11 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 11 years, 11 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 11 years, 11 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 11 years, 11 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 11 years, 11 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 11 years, 11 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 11 years, 11 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 11 years, 11 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 11 years, 11 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 12 years 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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