English @ SUNY Geneseo | William Antonelli | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/antonelw/activity/ Activity feed for William Antonelli. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 507281cafb00f2b25afa343e490fd40b William Antonelli commented on the post, sung lyrics vs written poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/04/09/sung-lyrics-vs-written-poetry/#comment-11750 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:58:22 -0500 I’ve always appreciated the band Yellowcard’s habit of making their first chorus different from their other choruses, usually through the method of adding additional lines as the song goes on. Consider “Ocean […]

]]> e266babce2d58d99cb33118e31ecd81b William Antonelli commented on the post, Ain't It Fun?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/04/09/aint-it-fun/#comment-11749 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 21:50:08 -0500 I still visit this blog occasionally, even though I’m out of workshop, so don’t be too put off by my commenting.

I know a lot of writers, both professional and amateur, but I can’t say that I know many who […]

]]> 6c9362543a3f3a0542f6ac50c1459c8d William Antonelli wrote a new blog post the takeaway from all this is in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9333/ Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:56:10 -0500 POETRY IS AWESOME AND YOU’RE AWESOME

 

NEVER LET ANYONE TELL YOU OTHERWISE

 

WRITE POEMS ABOUT SPACE AND FLOWERS OR WHATEVER YOU WANT BECAUSE YOU KNOW HOW GOOD YOU ARE

 

GO KICK THE WRITING WORLD’S ASS

]]> 0 87a1b853dfcd65044e36d94fbc7cf7bf William Antonelli commented on the post, Sometimes revision is taping six versions of a poem to the wall, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/12/14/sometimes-revision-is-taping-six-versions-of-a-poem-to-the-wall/#comment-10933 Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:54:35 -0500 FUCK YEAHHHHHHH

]]> daa9edfd8d899378b79ffdb9094ad5d9 William Antonelli edited the blog post Weekend Wisdom from Poet Paige Lewis: in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9141/ Sun, 03 Dec 2017 08:50:05 -0500

Poets! Use moons in your poems! Use birds & flowers & oceans! Don’t trust anyone who says “Poetry has had enough of these things.” Because what they’re actually saying is “I have had enough of these things.” & how could anyone who’s “had enough of the moon” be right about poetry?

–Paige Lewis

]]> 0 8a3914d1878096ebcd2aab4d4b412377 William Antonelli commented on the post, Writing while doing things, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/28/writing-while-doing-things/#comment-10857 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:27:51 -0500 😃

]]> 4d6c3bdc5ee2e007036db46e1ba8d799 William Antonelli edited the blog post Titles Are Hard—But We Can Make Them Easier in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9113/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 07:22:50 -0500 Over the past few years, I’ve participated and had my work critiqued in countless writing workshops, each one varying in both content and usefulness. After all, there’s only so much that university students, most of them amateur or beginning writers, can comment on in half an hour. Yet, if there’s one thing that’s been constant in every workshop…[Read more]

]]> 0 966f8f86dca7c3525f6463f240349ac8 William Antonelli commented on the post, someone had to ask the question, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/27/someone-had-to-ask-the-question/#comment-10855 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 04:36:49 -0500 Honestly, I just go for the poems that I think will make an interesting workshop—does something unique, has enough meat to get a conversation going, is enjoyable to read. If I’m gonna be subjecting a class to my d […]

]]> 967b86814c72678e98f12539e8d327c2 William Antonelli commented on the post, This Blog is Problematic, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/06/this-blog-is-problematic/#comment-10731 Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:55:05 -0500 “I think, in essence, the backlash these artists are getting is important because it starts a conversation. Someone is always going to be mad at a form of art that is created because it isn’t doing enough or t […]

]]> 84743392475117ab62ac6ccdedf902d8 William Antonelli commented on the post, line break (up), on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/05/line-break-up/#comment-10727 Mon, 06 Nov 2017 05:21:41 -0500 I like Olivia’s suggestion. Keep digital copies, but burn any physical ones. It’ll be badass.

I wish I could offer my own advice, but I’m struggling with the same thing right now.

]]> 49bfe7a34ab9cffb16d686ef9ea4a400 William Antonelli wrote a new blog post This Blog is Problematic in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8954/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 05:20:11 -0500 I’ve been thinking about this for three months now, and when we had the conversation in class about Sorbello’s transphobia, thought of it again.

To spare you the entire tweet thread, queer historian Morgan […]

]]> 0 b4f088021ee6167202d7b479897d3c7f William Antonelli commented on the post, How do you define a poem?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/30/how-do-you-define-a-poem/#comment-10689 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:58:27 -0500 I’ve always gone by the idea that poetry has no rules. IMO, to say something “isn’t poetry” is very similar to saying something “isn’t art”–it’s an act of elitism

]]> 651c7ed2f5b8dfbcc443744fd797882e William Antonelli commented on the post, Trouble with Prose Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/13/trouble-with-prose-poetry/#comment-10649 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 07:04:38 -0500 Same way you do it in prose—switch up your pacing with punctuation and sentence/paragraph structure, and give us a narrative we care about.

]]> 68641fa9cd3f5f90239a924f5c2370ab William Antonelli commented on the post, my old poems belong on MySpace (& other musings), on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/22/my-old-poems-belong-on-myspace-other-musings/#comment-10648 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 07:01:48 -0500 Who was the dude who burned all the work he had written before age 27? He’d probably have something to say about this.

I, personally, always think of the quote from animator Max Gilardi:
“How I draw now is how […]

]]> 0ea66d526f9826d02e908eabb7586fa7 William Antonelli edited the blog post Full Stop Therapy for Disaffected Teens in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8867/ Mon, 23 Oct 2017 06:58:01 -0500 Why is everyone on this blog always starting their comments with “Hey [author of post],” or “Hi [author of post]!”??? It gives every comment such a stilted and formal vibe, like we’re baby boomers on Facebook replying to a Happy Birthday from our second cousins. Why do we do it? Because we wanna buffer our scathing comments with polite…[Read more]

]]> 0 835b520c9fe1256cc98e7d325448d80e William Antonelli commented on the post, Holidays?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/18/holidays/#comment-10647 Mon, 23 Oct 2017 06:37:13 -0500 I only write poems about Halloween. Because I’m a goth

]]> 10a86b2b4d2a986282ba5a47bf0a51e3 William Antonelli commented on the post, Trouble with Prose Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/13/trouble-with-prose-poetry/#comment-10487 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:48:18 -0500 “When it comes to prose poetry, line breaks are somehow…less thought out to me.”
I’m not surprised, considering there are no line breaks in prose poetry. 😛

When reading poetry, I’m not sure it’s a good idea t […]

]]> 1bcacda92178425207e2cdd12538c1bf William Antonelli wrote a new blog post Bury Me in Bath in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8662/ Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:39:28 -0500 Last year, I took Dean Celia Easton’s evening course, Major Authors: Jane Austen. And although now I can speak about Austen’s writing with a respectable amount of grace and poise, the class also drove me near the […]

]]> 0 0dad55315fd5237c5e84e8d7779a9285 William Antonelli joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8568/ Mon, 11 Sep 2017 19:55:02 -0500 0 85ac62a7c4a666c4df905fa689fe31bd William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=523 Sat, 18 Apr 2015 04:54:10 -0500 In my view, there are few conversations about art more useless than “Is this piece of writing literature?” (perhaps just next to “What is art?”) The debate about whether something is literature–a word that has no […]

]]> dc304718cd17325cd19ed6e4e66455a1 William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=766 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 06:57:09 -0500 In our discussion on Chapter 4 of Interdisciplinarity today, we discussed the relationships between history and literary criticism as academic disciplines. In particular, we talked about the importance of context […]

]]> c259d7635f706e0ec8b8c1f4c7e45d85 William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=428 Sun, 29 Mar 2015 09:21:31 -0500 At the very end of John D’Agata’s About a Mountain, he reveals a small fact about the story: that some of the things within the story that he passed off as being completely accurate were purposefully altered, […]

]]> 8b2f91dc1735773b3c4ae2673e4697af William Antonelli commented on the post, Memoirs and the Episodic Memory, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/11/memoirs-and-the-episodic-memory/#comment-254 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 07:25:42 -0500 The thing that this reminds me of more than anything is Serial–in fact, I would argue that the concept of individual memory is the entire point that Serial was trying to make. The first episode starts out with a […]

]]> 4d79c0e1b08b99edac8a74f7e4b5c353 William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=368 Sun, 08 Mar 2015 10:19:47 -0500 Lauren Slater’s Lying occupies an interesting space within the world of creative nonfiction. Why, you ask? No, it’s not because it’s about a disease. No, it’s not even because Slater is an unreliable […]

]]> 8378386e5f7829f59c85db5f8a0f6f97 William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=257 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:14:59 -0500

I was almost always ready to shoot. I kept the camera within reaching distance, sometimes balanced on my shoulder… even between major portraits, when I was on the road, I was totally open to filming whatever […]

]]> d9939fc05ffd4023012e84aa7cb42df8 William Antonelli commented on the post, Subjectivity v. Objectivity (2015), on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/15/subjectivity-v-objectivity-2015/#comment-128 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:04:59 -0500 An interesting metaphor, to be sure.

]]> 06c9b252a12991213c40c42dc75e905b William Antonelli commented on the post, Control the Reader, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/17/control-the-reader/#comment-125 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:03:03 -0500 While I can understand your point about “Welcome to Night Vale,” I’m not entirely sure that it is an apt comparision; Night Vale is a fictional work deliberately meant to be as strange as possible to capture as […]

]]> a10e492dd21ba6ab865e343f05eee3b4 William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=178 Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:05:21 -0500 ThumbnailIn the modern era, society has found itself dissatisfied with the plain text that comes from reading a book. For just a few dollars, one can enjoy nearly any story of their choice as an audiobook, or even as a […]

]]> 61f7a11be4cbe756bbcd24ac37a8731b William Antonelli commented on the post, Is Truth the Key to Creativity?, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/01/is-truth-the-key-to-creativity/#comment-68 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 20:19:40 -0500 Interesting–we say that truth is the key to great writing, but where does subjectivity lie? Does every writer have their own version of the truth? Are there certain topics on which an objective truth cannot be established?

]]> 459f6a281569e1b757c89c1d6bfdb61e William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=123 Sun, 01 Feb 2015 20:15:58 -0500

You found a way to draw a line,
between the world and you:
Faking your identity.

-Five Iron Frenzy, Handbook for the Sellout

In her text Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion arranges a multitude of […]

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