English @ SUNY Geneseo | Amanda Ameen | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/amanda/activity/ Activity feed for Amanda Ameen. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 35b0e8bdd83c0b5ddbdd5344ea602b07 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Reliving Trauma in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8361/ Tue, 09 May 2017 22:07:49 -0500 During my Great Day presentation, someone asked me an interesting question that I wanted to pose to the rest of the poetry community:

“Do you feel you are reliving your trauma by reading past poems you’ve […]

]]> 0 2e32f550c19e7adbcf95c6e60c6afced Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Photos from Great Day! in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8360/ Tue, 09 May 2017 21:59:55 -0500 I never got to post these! Here are some photos from my great day presentation on trauma as a source of poetry! 

]]> 0 0cac46e53df091140347354bb456facc Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Poems I want to Share because Sharing Poems is Cool in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8243/ Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:49:42 -0500 Hello, my lovely poetry lovers,

I stumbled across several poems while going through the “poems of the day” in my email that I let pile to embarrassing numbers, and I just wanted to share my favorites with you! […]

]]> 0 7c33e0764a9cc32f8082fe7eeb858527 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post More Art and a Writing Exercise in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8106/ Tue, 21 Mar 2017 04:27:22 -0500 I want you to look at this painting:

I don’t love this painting. It is by no means my favorite. But every time I see it, I find myself drawn because it’s the best example of the middle finger to all of col […]

]]> 0 5da891e22112ef05bb7d990bb972c284 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Art as Source in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8090/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:48:45 -0500 Does anyone have forms of art that they do that they feel less attached to?

For me, it’s painting, which I do when I’m less into what my brain seems to view as forms of art I’m more attached to (e.g. writi […]

]]> 0 abd84d37ea04434b5e7d45c3ffbfe467 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Love/Hate Relationship with Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8089/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:39:04 -0500 And then Amanda realizes she hasn’t contributed to this blog in, like, a month…

I’ve had a weird love/hate relationship with poetry—and with most forms of art—the past few weeks. I love them, but creating […]

]]> 0 238b6df5ea7a1fa524c35e623bc7fc86 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Painting instead of Writing in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7989/ Mon, 20 Feb 2017 23:08:08 -0500 Hello, all

I’ve been struggling to find something to write about in this post… mostly because I’ve been struggling to write anything this past week. I’ve been on an artistic binge, which is always great, but […]

]]> 0 f199d35c963a214a5a7bb5ae1a1863f9 Amanda Ameen commented on the post, I can walk in other people's shoes, but I think it's wrong to write in them, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/01/18/i-can-walk-in-other-peoples-shoes-but-i-think-its-wrong-to-write-in-them/#comment-9124 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:52:23 -0500 Prose and poetry, first thing I think of: Love is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski. Read it, love the themes of life and people, be warned of the misogyny … because there’s misogyny.. great poet. Shitty guy. […]

]]> 1a5d6c93b2923090ecee21eca99c8107 Amanda Ameen commented on the post, Sparks, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/01/18/sparks/#comment-9123 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 05:29:41 -0500 Hi David. You and I have a lot in common.

When you mentioned mental illness, a lot of writers came to mind, but I think you would like Pamela Spiro Wagner’s “We Made Climb Shaky Ladders.” The collection covers […]

]]> ea647ef44b039350c3f71d933e74b8e0 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Transitions in Source Material in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7753/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 04:36:14 -0500 I joked a few times last semester that all of my poems were about rape and sexual abuse, which even I got sick of by the end of the semester—so this idea of exploring the sources of our poetry is so important a […]

]]> 0 29e99c0fb29b92586de034de2531b2c0 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Hashtags in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7678/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:40:55 -0500 I’m not sure if this has been discussed on this blog, or if this is even a conversation that deserves a post on this blog, but we’ve had several conversations, both in and out of class, on the role of the poet […]

]]> 0 23e444c2030d97f05b0f91264b0cf279 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post The Duty of the Writer in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7645/ Mon, 28 Nov 2016 03:53:15 -0500 I know that this idea has been discussed so many times, both on here and in class, but it’s still on my mind, so I figured it’s something worth bringing up again:

As a poet/writer, do we have a duty to write […]

]]> 0 047ab85f7b885ef8597a0ddf336ae3d4 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: Changing the Perspective in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7624/ Mon, 21 Nov 2016 01:40:09 -0500 Go through a handful of your past poems and try to identify one or two (or more, if you’re feeling ambitious!) works/techniques that you use most often. Re-write one of your poems without using this technique in […]

]]> 0 41a3ea262ce0d0ba88b3526df177a736 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Can't vs. Can not in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7594/ Tue, 08 Nov 2016 05:17:50 -0500 So, for those of you who don’t know, I’m an intern at a drug rehab center. Basically, my job is to follow whatever unfortunate therapist got stuck with me for the day, sit in on their group and therapy sessions, […]

]]> 0 82e787a95fc7dec0b8f615159c6baaa8 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Therapy or Meaning in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7502/ Mon, 31 Oct 2016 17:27:51 -0500 This past Friday, I spent the night collaborating on an art project with a buddy of mine, something we’ve been promising ourselves we’d do for rhe past several weeks. We thought it’d be fun, seeing as his mediums […]

]]> 0 1fa5612a5a7e0c5087141a78e04317d6 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post The Truth Behind a Poem in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7454/ Sat, 22 Oct 2016 18:48:37 -0500 A comment in our last workshop reminded me of a question Dr. Asher once asked us in our Philosophy and Literature course a year or two ago (side note, great class. Highly recommend). He put forth a poem about a […]

]]> 0 dd295e912497c18c3fb8eb1cf58780a2 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post A Rant from a Writer and a Social Worker in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7409/ Wed, 12 Oct 2016 23:22:19 -0500 While I am open about my double major in my writing classes and do include on my resume that I study both creative writing and psychology and ultimately become a LCSW (you’d be amazed how many social w […]

]]> 0 408a12c887d375f9ee00eb95e49d0e29 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post The Writer vs. The Actress in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7328/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:45:54 -0500 My best friend and I have grown up in artistic households. Both of our mothers are writers, painters, and musicians, and encouraged the two of us to follow in their paths. Today, my friend is an actress and a […]

]]> 0 cd43d8167a8a148a8bc72733e83a8017 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post A Train of Thought in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7240/ Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:54:39 -0500 For the past few months, I’ve been struggling with the topics in my writing which my brain has been leading me to (if that made any sense at all). I feel I write too much about specific aspects of my life that, at […]

]]> 0 2b682ba6ebda7d523f6e76acbb497026 Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post The Language of Poets and Philosophers in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7118/ Sat, 10 Sep 2016 23:47:12 -0500 While reading the piece on image by Philip, I found myself thinking of something my German professor said on the first day of our 101 class a couple of years ago—That German is the language of poets and p […]

]]> 0 bdb3d5bed4c41c7653101cf8b282ed2e Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post In Response to Pound in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6840/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:51:23 -0500 Often times, I need to remind myself that poetry and prose are “fruit of the same tree” to be completely cliché. That is, both are forms of writing with the potential of overlap, should the writer wish to do so. […]

]]> 0 8d305146bf48520dafbe5cf61162b891 Amanda Ameen joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6836/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:34:47 -0500 0 96eb3d54bc977f9e875a0256dd4a825c Amanda Ameen wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=554 Mon, 04 May 2015 02:37:30 -0500 I fell into writing via fanfiction. Not the “M rated romance” sort, I should note. It was the kind of stuff you’d expect from a dyslexic nine year old—spelling mistakes, one-dimensional characters, weirdly decent […]

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