English @ SUNY Geneseo | Ashley Olin | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ashleyolin/activity/ Activity feed for Ashley Olin. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 65f3c68c34fe2d7e17483c8a79855dbf Ashley Olin wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=523 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:16:20 -0500 Hi everyone,

I’ve been thinking that I might have a cool idea for a poetry exercise.  Obviously a lot of our class time has revolved around looking at each other’s work, and regardless of the extent to which it […]

]]> 672542b6ee3fcc58b168d4e6e0562091 Ashley Olin commented on the post, Getting in the Mood... (for Writing), on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/07/getting-in-the-mood-for-writing/#comment-4450 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 01:27:06 -0500 So I’m looking through these comments and Diego, you need to make that into a poem. I can so see the first six sentences of your comment being a poem if you expanded upon them! Random, I know, but I just had to […]

]]> 2e0556da690d2ef32b4d0823fe7c00fb Ashley Olin wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=510 Thu, 09 Apr 2015 19:19:08 -0500 Hi all,

I’d love to hear how all of your poetry meet-ups went today!  Pam, Diego and I were pretty productive in ours.  It was really interesting to do a study of one person’s works in progress and look at […]

]]> ce542d40a2fd40dffe8e1f861d3c7023 Ashley Olin commented on the post, Getting in the Mood... (for Writing), on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/07/getting-in-the-mood-for-writing/#comment-4342 Tue, 07 Apr 2015 23:17:15 -0500 Evan,
It seems from your reasoning it out within the post that above all, you need to have your own carved out space away from everyone else in order to write; I don’t think you differ from anyone else in this, […]

]]> bfa2085d268f126ee8d94035c83b666b Ashley Olin wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=499 Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:23:38 -0500 In looking for things to post about, today I decided to check VerseDaily (which I really should just make a habit of–they always have great pieces.)  Today’s poem of the day, which I included below, is called […]

]]> cc267780292e29f7ec733561ced6db04 Ashley Olin commented on the post, Poetry Overload, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/01/poetry-overload/#comment-4210 Thu, 02 Apr 2015 01:10:21 -0500 Dear Pam,
This is really great; it sounds like you had a truly awesome experience at CUPSI. While I don’t have much knowledge about slam poetry and how it differs from what we practice in class, what spoke to me […]

]]> 5677e3eb895db833e9c6f3007c4b713b Ashley Olin commented on the post, Poetry exercise, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/24/poetry-exercise/#comment-4102 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 03:09:42 -0500 To add to this, I tried Sarah’s exercise last night and it totally worked for me! While I didn’t end up writing a prose piece, it got me started on something that I plan to continue! Woo for poem-ing!

]]> 8450845e21742b887c465bf43ce022c8 Ashley Olin commented on the post, Exercise: fiddling with prose poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/21/exercise-fiddling-with-prose-poems/#comment-4082 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 03:21:22 -0500 I think this is a really great idea for an exercise! Usually in my case, and I know Juliana spoke about this as well, the hardest part is putting words on the page. For this prompt, you’ve already got words on […]

]]> 9f9597cfcde7dfd6a90ad70a0d525415 Ashley Olin wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=485 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 03:18:59 -0500 I should start by saying that I definitely am going to try some of the exercises that you’ve all blogged about.  For me, the hardest part about a poem is the beginning, because you’ve got to get yourself to think […]

]]> b96b467cec85a9037edc09ff51966c55 Ashley Olin commented on the post, Criticism Eyes vs. Enjoyment Eyes, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/17/criticism-eyes-vs-enjoyment-eyes/#comment-4081 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 02:45:25 -0500 I agree that you’re definitely on to something with this distinction, Margot. I think that sometimes it comes in the way we label things–being that all of the work in LP is there because the poets are renowned […]

]]> 808fa27bbec4f7a0eb9a9a5bd90ba510 Ashley Olin commented on the post, Just a Line to Share, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/19/just-a-line-to-share/#comment-4080 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 02:27:36 -0500 That is a pretty cool line! I also love the follow-up of how the furniture “snitched on us in the morning —” because it brings a new thought to my head when I think of furniture. After all that’s so much of […]

]]> f73f4c6e098c06921ef09bcee964cf9c Ashley Olin commented on the post, Prose Poems vs. Lyric Essays, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/01/prose-poems-vs-lyric-essays/#comment-3745 Wed, 04 Mar 2015 01:22:28 -0500 Hey Sarah,
I’m in the same boat; I think prose poetry is a super interesting avenue but is also incredibly unexplored. As we all found out in class today, it seems that we’re all still fairly uncertain what […]

]]> 397455f690ddebfc8572f9e1d743d2c3 Ashley Olin commented on the post, Art from Art, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/02/art-from-art/#comment-3737 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:31:05 -0500 Hi Chloe,
I think it’s cool that you brought up the idea of taking art from one medium to another. You’re on to something where this is concerned–maybe what you’re feeling by the whole process being easier is […]

]]> 0229c1c0a2ffaaa6d7bc432774e3acaf Ashley Olin commented on the post, What's your image creating process?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/17/whats-your-image-creating-process/#comment-3736 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 01:23:53 -0500 Thank you guys so much for all your feedback!
Sarah, I totally agree that I also put way too much pressure on myself for any first draft of a poem. I think it’s really my own state of mind that prohibits me from […]

]]> b3da156f96dda444ce0f81d601c086d6 Ashley Olin commented on the post, From Stage to Page (and back again?), on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/16/from-stage-to-page-and-back-again/#comment-3655 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:58:44 -0500 Personally, I do not have any experience with slam poetry, although it seems like something that is really fun to both write and perform. My impressions of it are that the images/subject matters function much the […]

]]> 60195cc508e12f6c368fbcb5a123f249 Ashley Olin wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=433 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:48:49 -0500 For a while now, I’ve been feeling like my writing process gets in the way of the time I actually spend writing.  This is becoming problematic to the point at which I’m having a lot of trouble sitting down and […]

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