English @ SUNY Geneseo | Amy Elizabeth Bishop | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/aeb16/activity/ Activity feed for Amy Elizabeth Bishop. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 ea14a47445b7988dbaccc1ac7643f57e Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, My Relationship with the Ampersand, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/04/my-relationship-with-the-ampersand/#comment-3569 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:13:15 -0500 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 […]

]]> 7ab19b2cfb61ab08cfeb25f4323ecf35 Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Favorite Author, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/01/29/favorite-author/#comment-3568 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:10:03 -0500 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 […]

]]> bd17e35d10065475eb60a9715ca20bac Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=319 Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:49:09 -0500 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 […]

]]> 8daa5fcd725192211e5a14cd08b848dd Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=298 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:07:54 -0500 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 […]

]]> e1595e1b6ff14895269edf7c4e80ec33 Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, I for One Welcome Our New iPhone Overlords, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/21/the-robot-uprising-is-at-hand/#comment-1511 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:57:27 -0500 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.)

]]> 1fd62d4da8c623f37896650a4d37a537 Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Eight Weeks In, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/19/eight-weeks-in/#comment-1357 Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:47:32 -0500 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 […]

]]> 710d6145eee3fff5d0239ade45e738a0 Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=269 Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:44:52 -0500 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 […]

]]> 9a1675ceb6bb2727e15440a5e8e693e7 Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=250 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 19:04:14 -0500 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, […]

]]> 361b05b185af5b336add9319cf45e2e2 Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=225 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 01:28:16 -0500 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 […]

]]> b5f2ec9dd72b2f6cdeb37eff5c2a05a9 Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, I'm Scared of Poetry! Help! , on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/10/06/im-scared-of-poetry-help/#comment-1074 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:22:56 -0500 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 […]

]]> 67c9a30e890d8a5842e213342a64a1cf Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Finding the Time, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/25/finding-the-time/#comment-900 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:45:57 -0500 I’m still really proud of us all (& especially you) for doing the GREAT Day reading. 🙂

]]> 1418bb35217346a0d781460e29ef40d6 Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=164 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:53:45 -0500 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 […]

]]> bb42cc64f41fa430240904732399da2d Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Childhood Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/21/childhood-poetry/#comment-556 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:43:27 -0500 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!

]]> 3485892831af27999e2e1c4896d0faf4 Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Writing about Things that Don't Interest Us., on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/25/writing-about-things-that-dont-interest-us/#comment-555 Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:41:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 78b8a0e003fe9bd22a23192f2aa8cbcf Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=126 Sun, 21 Sep 2014 00:41:21 -0500 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 […]

]]> 7fdb6b670444347fc6a4e4d96d13a26c Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Poetry Inspiration, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/14/poetry-inspiration/#comment-249 Sun, 21 Sep 2014 00:24:04 -0500 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 […]

]]> cdef079119ba4b08bca21af27335a3aa Amy Elizabeth Bishop commented on the post, Slam Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2014/09/18/slam-poetry/#comment-248 Sun, 21 Sep 2014 00:20:59 -0500 Katie:

One of my favorite slam poems: “If I had A Daughter” by Sarah Kay.

]]> a3ed411c6667881c9e3c8e056cbca633 Amy Elizabeth Bishop wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=29 Fri, 05 Sep 2014 01:29:49 -0500 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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