English @ SUNY Geneseo | Amanda Coffey | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/amandaecoffey/activity/ Activity feed for Amanda Coffey. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 ce2be9dad8e221db6430c30ef0d723a7 Amanda Coffey commented on the post, Writing Prompt: Song Lyrics, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/04/18/writing-prompt-song-lyrics/#comment-7447 Mon, 18 Apr 2016 15:36:14 -0500 This is an exercise I did with one of my classes while I was student teaching! I think it’s really fascinating to see what you can come up with from borrowing a line from someone else, whether it be from a song or […]

]]> d8973fa0549d6fe80e8c338e18d22d89 Amanda Coffey edited the blog post ESL & Myung Mi Kim in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6283/ Sun, 10 Apr 2016 20:02:41 -0500 Recently I read an article (here if you’re interested) about a poet named Ocean Vuong, who was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the USA with his family when he was two. In the article, he mentions that his family was illiterate, and that he didn’t learn to read until he was eleven, and says, “For an American who was born here, the mundane mi…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa571ecce377439e21e46206e37a0e19 Amanda Coffey edited the blog post Snow in April in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6271/ Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:13:13 -0500 An April Sunday brings the snow
Making the blossom on the plum trees green,
Not white. An hour or two, and it will go.
Strange that I spend that hour moving between

Cupboard and cupboard, shifting the store
Of jam you made of fruit from these same trees:
Five loads – a hundred pounds or more –
More than enough for all next summer’s teas.…[Read more]

]]> 0 5d7f818b70e471139076518e971fb085 Amanda Coffey wrote a new blog post Jayne Thompson and "Letters to My Younger Self" in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6254/ Thu, 24 Mar 2016 19:01:32 -0500 I recently went to listen to writer/activist Jayne Thompson speak and I found her work to be really intriguing. She is a creative writing professor, but also runs writing workshops for incarcerated men. She even […]

]]> 0 9d74afb8574012f3d4a3cf89ca657c68 Amanda Coffey commented on the post, Cecily Parks and Environmental Sociology, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/03/19/cecily-parks-and-environmental-sociology/#comment-7356 Thu, 24 Mar 2016 18:26:41 -0500 Wow! I really never thought of her work in this way…“wilderness isn’t paradise” is an idea that I think is also apparent in the way that nature is romanticized for audiences across literature, film, art, etc […]

]]> 1e2a03f3f245a3bb43198090d3eb7d01 Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=1022 Sun, 06 Mar 2016 19:34:24 -0500 From Propa Propaganda by Benjamin Zephaniah

They put a leather belt around her
13 feet of tape and bound her
Handcuffs to secure her
And only God knows what else,
She’s illegal, so deport her
Said the E […]

]]> e6b1c13afac777587ec43716d34c31ba Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=981 Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:41:39 -0500 In the spirit of politics and poetry, I wanted to talk about the United States Inaugural Poet. For the past five presidential inaugurations, the United States as chosen a poet to read their work as part of the […]

]]> 3151fdeba61465597ef2d66985b3597e Amanda Coffey commented on the post, Writing and Practicality, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/02/19/writing-and-practicality/#comment-7253 Sun, 21 Feb 2016 19:05:00 -0500 Hi Mary,

I could not agree with you more. Often times in our senior seminar class, I find myself feeling frustrated by the practicality of our discussions. I don’t write because I want to be published; I write […]

]]> 4f92ae9837b22a149baad5dd9af0ad14 Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=955 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:52:08 -0500 From Sci-Fi
By Tracy K. Smith

In those last scenes of Kubrick’s 2001
When Dave is whisked into the center of space,
Which unfurls in an aurora of orgasmic light
Before opening wide, like a jungle […]

]]> 4e38633aefdd0eb024a62addd3d037c9 Amanda Coffey commented on the post, From Prose to Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/02/13/from-prose-to-poetry/#comment-7243 Tue, 16 Feb 2016 22:17:26 -0500 Hi Oliver and Evan,

I want to comment on both your ideas on poetry versus prose. I think of myself primarily as a prose writer, and still tend to keep myself in that mindset even when writing poetry. However, […]

]]> 80800940c4dd61691f452846d9975882 Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=937 Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:50:21 -0500 Ozymandias by Percy Shelley
“I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, who […]

]]> a412dd35edc2869cb7d1a0035e34ee7e Amanda Coffey commented on the post, Robert Service: Popularity and Power, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/02/09/robert-service-popularity-and-power/#comment-7214 Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:22:35 -0500 Hi Mary –

I want to comment on what you say is “common representation” in poetry, and also your question of: Why is poetry, and bad, common poetry at that, the medium that carries this memory?

I really […]

]]> c86344d61594d0b3b8d0d1bc204faeda Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=899 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 23:22:21 -0500 Ah, love poems! Always good to have one on hand, am I right? Whether you’re attempting to woo a new lover or impress your current flame, knowing one or two (good ones) won’t hurt your chances.

[love is more […]

]]> 45dc71815a486f09edd72db71d9310a3 Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=871 Sun, 24 Jan 2016 21:24:22 -0500 Charlotte Mew

A Quoi Bon Dire?

Seventeen years ago you said
Something that sounded like Good-bye;
And everybody thinks that you are dead,
But I.

So I, as I grow stiff and cold
To this and that say […]

]]> cc433e5c762f4c97e01e30df4f3ff204 Amanda Coffey wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=861 Wed, 20 Jan 2016 21:02:35 -0500 One of George Szirtes claims on form in poetry is that it serves as “an act of triumph of meaning and structure over chaos and meaningless, and also with the triumph of civilized values over barbarity.” He the […]

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