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William Antonelli wrote a new blog post the takeaway from all this is in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 8 months ago

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
William Antonelli edited the blog post Weekend Wisdom from Poet Paige Lewis: in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 9 months ago

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
William Antonelli edited the blog post Titles Are Hard—But We Can Make Them Easier in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 9 months ago

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]
William Antonelli wrote a new blog post This Blog is Problematic in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
William Antonelli edited the blog post Full Stop Therapy for Disaffected Teens in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 months ago

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]
William Antonelli wrote a new blog post Bury Me in Bath in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 11 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text 11 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 11 years, 5 months ago

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, […]
William Antonelli wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 11 years, 6 months ago

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 […]

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