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Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Reliving Trauma in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Photos from Great Day! in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 4 months ago

I never got to post these! Here are some photos from my great day presentation on trauma as a source of poetry!
Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Poems I want to Share because Sharing Poems is Cool in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 4 months ago

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! […]
Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post More Art and a Writing Exercise in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Art as Source in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Love/Hate Relationship with Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Painting instead of Writing in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 6 months ago

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 […]
Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Transitions in Source Material in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 7 months ago

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 […]
Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post Hashtags in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Amanda Ameen wrote a new blog post The Duty of the Writer in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 9 months ago

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 […]

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