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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Fragile but still Strong in the group
Film Talk: 5 years, 4 months agoLeave No Trace is about the relationship between a girl and her father. It’s a patient movie and a thorough one. It takes its time unveiling the details of their relationship and their lives. The father, (Ben […]
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Brianna Forgione edited the blog post Bad Friendship’s at Black Rock in the group
Film Talk: 5 years, 6 months agoBad Day at Black Rock is a rather tense, and quiet suspense drama that dances with a grim social message about racial prejudice. Spencer Tracy is John J. MacReedy, a stranger who comes to the devastatingly empty […]
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Brianna Forgione joined the group
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Poetry to Fiction in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 10 months agoAlthough I am upset that this semester is coming to an end, I am anxious and excited for the Spring. Next semester will be my first semester where I am not taking a poetry class or workshop of some sort. Next […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Working as an Editor in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 10 months agoThis semester I am taking English 426 which is the editing course that puts together the literary magazine, Gandy Dancer. Coming into this course I was not sure what to expect. I knew we were going to be doing […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Intersectionality in Poetry in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 10 months agoNext week in my Women and Gender studies class we have a paper due that explores intersectionality in everyday campus life, developing your own case study and analysis. The paper will rethink “everyday pr […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Senior Scaries in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 10 months agoAs time progresses and I begin to reach the middle of my Fall semester of my Senior year, a million thoughts began to run through my head. The one thought I have that has been pretty prominent, is what I want to […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post “Scissor” Through in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months agoLast week in class for my tangible item, I brought in a scissor. I felt that this item represented the tension throughout David Herd’s collection of poems in Through.
Herd touches up upon various topics […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Poetry; its good for the soul in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months agoEveryone knows how hard it can be living with someone you often butt heads with. This frustration often leads to people being passive aggressive and saying things that can offend others. I know this because I am […]
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Brianna Forgione edited the blog post Gandy Dancer in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months agoI’m going to take this time to make a shameless plug about Gandy Dancer. I assume most of you are aware of what Gandy Dancer is, BUT if you don’t, this is the perfect opportunity for you to learn more.
Gandy […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Organic Form in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months agoThis week and last week, we were asked to think about the word “organic” and what it meant to us as a writer. I thought about other words such as “natural” and “flow-y” and things along that realm.
When it came […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Something Borrowed in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 11 months agoI often find myself running out of things to write about. For example, I’m even struggling to figure out what to write about for this blog post.
I believe that it is important to read poetry daily that isn’t […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Scansion One in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 6 years agoThis week our first Scansion was due. I sat there staring at my laptop for about 10 minutes, completely lost on what to write about. And not only did I not know what to write about I didn’t even know how to […]
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Brianna Forgione commented on the post, Thoughts on Prose Poems, on the groupblog
The Contemporary Poem 6 years agoConnor,
I too agree with Julia. I love prose and the way it enables its reader and writer to really become engaged in the piece that is being worked on. It is also a fantastic way of easing back into poetry […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post al”one” in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 6 years agoThis week I wrote a poem based off the chapter “One” in the book A Little Book On Form. After reading this chapter, I wrote down a collection of words that first popped into my head. One word that stood out to m […]
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Brianna Forgione commented on the post, Tiredness and Writing, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 4 months ago
Danielle,
First of all, I’m never too eager to admit this but I love the movie Coraline. It’s spooky, its quirky, and just aesthetically pleasing.
Anyways, I never actually realized that writing during […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Workshop Experience in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 4 months agoAs I first entered this class, I didn’t know what to expect. I was nervous of course, and I knew it was going to consist of workshop, but I have never partook in a workshop this intense before. It was for sure […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Revision Blues in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 5 months agoThe one thing I hate most about writing is revision. In general it takes a lot out of a person to be like yeah, I was wrong let me fix that. Let alone going back to their OWN writing and changing it.
We get so […]
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Brianna Forgione commented on the post, Putting My Skills To The Test//Writing and Confrontation, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 5 months ago
Julia,
When you mentioned that fight in class I got so triggered because I was there! Anyway, I had no idea what was going on obviously but I knew it was something serious.
That’s so awesome that you […]
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Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Keep Moving Forward in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 5 months agoI recently made a blog post talking about Lack of Confidence and how I put myself in a position to feel vulnerable by submitting some of my pieces into Gandy Dancer. I was extremely nervous to do something like […]
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