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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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