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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post Great Day at the Gazebo! in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2017 00:55:01 -0500</pubDate>

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<p>Today David and I did our Great Day presentation at the Gazebo.  We were supposed to do a &#8220;tour&#8221; of certain locations on campus, but the weather prevented us from doing this.  Instead, we stayed s [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Spitting our Painter&#039;s Palette into the Smog, on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
				<link>http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/04/18/spitting-our-painters-palette-into-the-smog/#comment-9611</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Apr 2017 18:10:00 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David,<br />
I am so glad that you brought this up!  I feel like (as if I&#8217;m not anxious enough already) I am constantly living in fear of what Trump is going to do next.  I don&#8217;t find myself worrying about survival of [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post Page Poetry vs Slam Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2017 17:32:58 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello friends!</p>
<p>So lately I feel like I have been straddling the line between page poetry and slam poetry.  Oftentimes I find myself wanting to write page poetry but I end up writing slam instead.  I am trying t [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post &quot;Honest Confessions on Letting Go.&quot; in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2017 22:52:43 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>I just realized I haven&#8217;t been on the blog in a while&#8211;oops!  Seems like the end of the semester is creeping up on me!</p>
<p>These past two semesters have been crazy whirlwinds for me and I&#8217;ve found [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post an old favorite of mine! in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2017 18:19:17 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know if any of you have heard of the national recitation contest &#8220;Poetry Out Loud,&#8221; but my high school participated in it and required all students to memorize a poem and recite it in front of the class.  The students then voted on who they thought should go on from the classroom competition to the school-wide competition.&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-8148"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8148/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, The Comfort of Habit, on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:31:36 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Allison &amp; Marina!</p>
<p>I think it&#8217;s really interesting you brought this up.  I was just thinking about how I am constantly writing about romantic/sexual relationships.  Oftentimes they pertain to what&#8217;s going on [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post In Relation to my &quot;Show Me Your List&quot; Post... in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Mar 2017 23:59:22 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>I know we talked about this a little in class, but I&#8217;ll repeat myself so everyone knows what I&#8217;m blogging about.  A couple of weeks ago our writing exercise was to write a piece after making a list of [&hellip;] <img loading="lazy" src="http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2017/03/let-me-stay-278x300.png" /></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post Show Me Your List!!! in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2017 03:32:06 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t read exercise 5 already here is the first task of the assignment:</p>
<p>&#8220;Begin by brainstorming a list of words you care about, including both words you use often and words you never use but would like to. You don’t need a long list, but you might need to write a long list to get to a shorter one, if that makes sense: you w&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-8020"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8020/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, SUBMIT!, on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2017 03:12:46 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Grace,<br />
I think this is a great topic you&#8217;ve brought up!<br />
I&#8217;m not typically afraid of making submissions, although I&#8217;m always nervous about hearing back from orgs I&#8217;ve submitted to.  It&#8217;s always nice to be [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post &quot;What to Do When a Politician Tries to Fall into Your Vagina Feet First&quot; in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7979/</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2017 19:03:43 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>This weeks exercise encourages us to write about something political.  I just came across this slam performance by Theresa Davis.  The piece is protesting the governments hand in women&#8217;s rights.  I ha [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Structure, on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2017 03:48:49 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Alexa,<br />
I think it&#8217;s interesting how you discuss the structure of buildings when talking about the structure of poetry.  I remember how you mentioned that one of your sources for poetry is skylines.  Have you [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post &quot;milk and honey&quot; in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:59:53 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I found myself struggling when deciding what to post on the blog this week.  I was looking through some of my books for inspiration, and I figured I would post some of my favorite pieces from Rupi Kaur&#8217;s &#8220;milk and honey.&#8221;   Her book is currently one of the best-selling contemporary collections of poetry.</p>
<p>Regarding Kaur&#8217;s sources, I b&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7949"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7949/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post &quot;College-style&quot; Workshop at the High School Level in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7887/</link>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:23:01 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>Over the winter break I needed to complete a 20 practicum for my Adolescent Ed major.  This meant I needed to observe/participate in/lead a high school English classroom for the required time.  While I didn&#8217;t plan to spend more than 20 hours working with my favorite English teacher, I ended up completing 29 hours!<!--more--></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Sometimes to be Great at Writing You Have to Suck at it Too, on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
				<link>http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/02/07/sometimes-to-be-great-at-writing-you-have-to-suck-at-it-too/#comment-9215</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2017 19:11:28 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Gabi!<br />
I. LOVE. GIRLS.  I know it&#8217;s kind of controversial based on different opinions of Lena Dunham, but I freaking love it.<br />
I actually follow Jemima Kirke on Twitter and the other day she tweeted: &#8220;La la [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Faith, on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
				<link>http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/01/31/faith/#comment-9200</link>
				<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2017 04:10:49 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Marina,</p>
<p>I like how you defined faith for us.  Sometimes I forget that it doesn&#8217;t need to be purely religious.  </p>
<p>What I really love about this poem is how you said it focused on a mother&#8217;s faith, but it [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, &#034;Touched by An Angel&#034; by Maya Angelou, on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
				<link>http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/01/29/touched-by-an-angel-by-maya-angelou/#comment-9165</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 04:24:21 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Alexa,<br />
Thanks for sharing this poem!  I&#8217;ve never read it before.<br />
I like how you paid attention to the sounds happening here.  A few semesters ago Lytton ran a workshop which focused on sound in poetry.  I [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post &quot;Good Bones&quot; by Maggie Smith in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:14:44 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>Last semester I took Fiction II with Rachel Hall.  The class after Trump was elected, Hall gave us this poem which continues to resonate with me:</p>
<p><strong><span>Good Bones</span></strong></p>
<p>by Maggie Smith</p>
<p>Life is short, though I keep this from my children.<br />
Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine<br />
in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,<br />
a thousand de&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7820"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7820/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, It&#039;s All Good Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
				<link>http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/01/18/its-all-good-poetry/#comment-9108</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:12:14 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Davina!<br />
We had Beth&#8217;s Morrison class together last semester, and I saw you scribbling in your notebook a few times.  I think it&#8217;s awesome that you always have it with you, and always find something to write in [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, I can walk in other people&#039;s shoes, but I think it&#039;s wrong to write in them, on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2017 03:57:43 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Allison!<br />
I&#8217;m interested by what you have here!  You call yourself a storyteller&#8211;how often do you write prose/fiction?  I like how you compare oral story telling to poetic narrative&#8211;I&#8217;m excited to see how you [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post &quot;hermit crab form&quot; in the group The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2017 22:19:26 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Lytton told me this class would be focused on &#8220;sources&#8221; of poetry, I knew I would really enjoy being a part of this class. I often find myself writing about things I have come across in other readings, or stories I have come across through research. For example, I have a poem about Marilyn Monroe&#8211;one of my favorite original pieces. I also&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7765"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7765/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post Slam Poetry - &quot;Slay&quot; in the group American Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:13:12 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I came across this piece today and the way the poet talks about dance/music reminds me of Morrison&#8217;s <em>Jazz</em>.<!--more--></p>
<p>The piece opens with the introduction of <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/01/living/rosie-perez-memoir-identity/" rel="nofollow ugc">Rosie Perez</a> &#8220;tear[ing] up the dance floor on Soul Train and becom[ing] your patron saint of slay.&#8221;  The article I&#8217;ve linked to her name explains: <em>&#8220;[Perez] got her start dancing after&hellip;</em><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7676"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7676/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post &quot;Blues da Piedade&quot; in the group American Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 01:10:32 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE FINISHED PARADISE*</p>
<p>Since completing reading the novel, I have been trying to make sense of the recurrence of the name &#8220;Piedade&#8221; throughout the novel.  The name comes up quite a few [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Sethe and Ruby: Dehumanization, on the site (Im)Possibilities</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2016 21:49:34 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Julie,<br />
I noticed how in &#8220;Paradise&#8221; the nurse offered to call a vet for Ruby.  I like how you&#8217;ve made this connection to &#8220;Beloved.&#8221;<br />
I think it is also important to bring up places where Morrison has called [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post Does Morrison Doom Characters to Their Names? in the group American Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2016 22:15:32 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello all!</p>
<p>Something I have thinking quite a bit about lately is the bluntness of the names that Morrison gives her characters.  In class yesterday, Alpha talked a little bit about how one of the minor [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post Paradise Character Chart! in the group American Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2016 02:25:26 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>I know in class today Daisy mentioned how a character chart would be helpful.  While this resource isn&#8217;t a &#8220;chart&#8221; per se, it certainly has a coherent description of each character in the novel.  I h [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post Paradise is Going Green in the group American Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:40:47 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>Thought  I would do a more detailed post after sharing that slam piece.</p>
<p><strong>RUBY</strong></p>
<p>I would like to spend a little bit of time writing about the prominence of the color green in Paradise.  The first page that I noticed it on was page 7, when the men are raiding the Convent.  Morrison wrote: &#8220;The man eyes the kitchen sink.  He mov&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7606"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7606/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post Slam Poem - &quot;When The Obamas Leave Us&quot; in the group American Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2016 20:37:54 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I know a lot people are trying to stay off of social media today, but if you watch anything at all, I ask you to watch this.</p>
<p>Think about how it connects to Morrison&#8217;s writings, or simply just watch [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post Meter in Paradiso - Emphasis on the _____? in the group American Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2016 04:10:02 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all!</p>
<p>We have been talking a lot about how Dante is constantly romanticizing Beatrice, constantly proclaiming his love for her.  A great example of this occurs pages 213-214 when Dante says:</p>
<p>&#8220;Those loving words made me turn round to face/ my Solace.  What love within her holy eyes/ I just saw then&#8211;too much to be retold.&#8221;</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Nicodemus, on the site (Im)Possibilities</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 03:56:01 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Alanna,<br />
Thank you for your informative post!<br />
I googled Nicodemus also and found that the name means &#8220;Victory of the people.&#8221;  I think this is fitting as you said that freed slaves settled in Nicodemus, [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, GOLD / GRAY, on the site (Im)Possibilities</title>
				<link>http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/10/20/golden-gray-symbolism-of-color-or-something-else/#comment-30</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 03:48:54 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rachel,<br />
I am glad you brought up the word &#8220;expel.&#8221;  I did not think of it as working here until you said it.  I guess you could say that Golden Gray&#8217;s name (and heritage) expels him from a particular race, but [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, On the discourse of punishment..., on the site (Im)Possibilities</title>
				<link>http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/10/26/on-the-discourse-of-punishment/#comment-29</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:27:15 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Emily,<br />
As a future high school English teacher, I found this Ted Talk to be so important.  I think this a really interesting idea&#8211;to teach history so that we are aware of all the &#8220;dark and difficult things&#8221; [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Tony Morrison teaches us Humanities, on the site (Im)Possibilities</title>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2016 18:12:13 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Alanna,<br />
I&#8217;m so glad you wrote about your group discussion on Monday!  I think it&#8217;s interesting to think about the book itself as narrating a story.  I have read a lot of books, I mean A LOT, and I cannot [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post GOLD / GRAY in the group American Studies</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7445/</link>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2016 04:20:27 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8220;Golden&#8221; as copied, pasted, and defined from Wiktionary.com:</strong></p>
<p>Please note that all of the blue words can be clicked on and take you to a more detailed and specific definition of that particular word.<br />
<span>Adjective</span><br />
<strong>golden</strong> ‎(<i><a title="Appendix:Glossary" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#comparable" rel="nofollow ugc">comparative</a></i> <span><b><a title="more" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/more#English" rel="nofollow ugc">more</a> golden</b></span> <i>or</i> <span><b><a title="goldener" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goldener#English" rel="nofollow ugc">goldener</a></b></span>, <i><a title="Appendix:Glossary" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#comparable" rel="nofollow ugc">superlative</a></i> <span><b><a title="most" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/most#English" rel="nofollow ugc">most</a> golden</b></span> <i>or</i> <span><b><a title="goldenest" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/goldenest#English" rel="nofollow ugc">goldenest</a></b></span>)</p>
<p> 	Made of, or relating to, <a title="gold" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/gold" rel="nofollow ugc">gold</a>.</p>
<p> 	<i>She wore a&hellip;</i><span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7445"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7445/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post Rose&#039;s Well in the group American Studies</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7423/</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 21:45:42 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>*Spoilers &#8211; Please do not read until you have completed the reading for 10/17*</p>
<p>Hello everyone!</p>
<p>I recently completed the reading for Monday, and I found myself noticing a lot of references to &#8220;churning&#8221; in [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post History.com - The Great Migration in the group American Studies</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7421/</link>
				<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:29:09 -0500</pubDate>

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<p>Hi everyone!</p>
<p>I wanted to know more about the Great Migration, other than the fact that many African Americans moved up north.  I think this is a great article which includes why the Great Migration happened, how African Americans traveled, and what they did when they arrived in the&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7421"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7421/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Writing the Deceased Back to Life: A Sin or an Honor, on the site (Im)Possibilities</title>
				<link>http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/10/05/writing-the-deceased-back-to-life-a-sin-or-an-honor/#comment-24</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2016 20:54:16 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Rachel!<br />
I totally agree with all the questions you are asking.  To be completely honest, my answer to most of them is: I don&#8217;t know.  I would hope I am not using/reducing these people, but I don&#8217;t want to stop [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post Writing the Deceased Back to Life: A Sin or an Honor in the group American Studies</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7366/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 03:50:16 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In class yesterday we talked about the concerns around narrating the lives of those who have died.  More specifically, we talked about what it means to give life to those who traveled on the Middle Passage.  In H [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post Baby Suggs vs Bernice Johnson Reagon in the group American Studies</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7321/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 01:49:08 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hello all!</p>
<p>I found today&#8217;s video to be really interesting.  I was reminded of Baby Suggs&#8217; religious speakings when Bernice Johnson Reagon was talking/singing.  Reagon explained how communal singing announced t [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Beloved Through Stages of Infancy, on the site (Im)Possibilities</title>
				<link>http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/24/beloved-through-stages-of-infancy/#comment-19</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2016 01:20:36 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Daisy,<br />
I was immediately grabbed by the title of your blog post.  I had not noticed that Beloved seems to be walking like a baby rather than an old woman.  I definitely attributed Sethe&#8217;s need to use the [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Infant Death and Haunting in &#034;A Mercy&#034; and &#034;Beloved&#034;, on the site (Im)Possibilities</title>
				<link>http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/20/infant-death-and-haunting-in-a-mercy-and-beloved/#comment-15</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2016 05:08:08 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really love the connection you have made here!</p>
<p>I think the recurrence of infanticide certainly has to do with loss of hope for the future.  I&#8217;m wondering if it also is emphasizing the lack of control slave [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller changed their profile picture</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7237/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 05:50:02 -0500</pubDate>

				
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, The credibility of Lina&#039;s character traits, on the site (Im)Possibilities</title>
				<link>http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/15/the-credibility-of-linas-character-traits/#comment-14</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 05:44:07 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it is really interesting how Lina is seen as the ultimate caretaker in the novel, but your post has further pursued the idea that Lina is actually SELFISH in her actions rather than SELFLESS.  I was not [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new blog post &quot;All Lives Matter: 1800s Edition&quot; in the group American Studies</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7235/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2016 05:25:10 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I spent quite a bit of time trying to find a piece of slam poetry that related to our content in class.  While the title of this piece is &#8220;All Lives Matter: 1800s Edition&#8221; this piece focuses on the inherent white [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post A &quot;Florens Found Poem&quot; in the group American Studies</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7190/</link>
				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2016 02:56:49 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In class the other day we talked about how Florens is a poet.  I myself am partial to poetry and so I thought I would enjoy creating a &#8220;found poem&#8221; from Florens&#8217; chapters in the novel.  While I may have changed a word here or there, almost of the lines I have used are straight out of &#8220;A Mercy.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>I Unfold</strong></p>
<p>Your back looks like whatever the s&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-7190"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7190/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post I&#039;m Infatuated by Florens&#039; Infatuation in the group American Studies</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7041/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 02:34:37 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>*SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN&#8217;T FINISHED THIS WEEK&#8217;S READING</strong></p>
<p>During this week&#8217;s reading we learn through Lina that the &#8220;you&#8221; Florens continually addresses is a blacksmith&#8211;a FREE black man who worked on the estate Lina and Florens reside at.</p>
<p>During her sections, Florens repeatedly displays her infatuation with this blacksmith:<!--more--></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller edited the blog post Buzzfeed: Assorted Toni Morrison Quotes in the group American Studies</title>
				<link>https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6877/</link>
				<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 00:09:04 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all! I recently came across this Buzzfeed article of Morrison&#8217;s quotes.  They are truly beautiful and if you haven&#8217;t started to read &#8220;A Mercy&#8221; yet, I think this is a nice taste of her writings and speeches.</p>
<p>Which is your favorite &amp; why? I love &#8220;We die.  That may be the meaning of life.  But we do language.  That may be the measure of our liv&hellip;<span class="activity-read-more" id="activity-read-more-6877"><a href="https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6877/" rel="nofollow ugc">[Read more]</a></span></p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller joined the group American Studies</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:53:54 -0500</pubDate>

				
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				<title>Arianna Miller wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
				<link>http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=835</link>
				<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2015 23:06:31 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey all!<br />
So I&#8217;ve been cramming like crazy&#8211;as I&#8217;m sure most of you are.  I was just thinking how I would love to have a little writing exercise to de-stress but that also relates somewhat to material I&#8217;m [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, The inevitable revision blog post...., on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:49:25 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Chloe!<br />
I think revision blues are perpetual&#8211;even after they are done they aren&#8217;t really done.  But this is certainly something I love about writing&#8211;there&#8217;s always space for improvement!<br />
I&#8217;m almost done [&hellip;]</p>
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				<title>Arianna Miller commented on the post, Revision with Sound in Mind, on the site The Contemporary Poem</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2015 22:34:27 -0500</pubDate>

									<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Nicole!<br />
I think many of my poems are thematic but have recently become more sound oriented.  I guess I&#8217;ll just comment on some of your questions and why I find them helpful:<br />
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