English @ SUNY Geneseo | Brianna Forgione | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/briforgione/activity/ Activity feed for Brianna Forgione. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 8ab571cf5e1b8426ed48011aa87ab46b Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Fragile but still Strong in the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12825/ Wed, 08 May 2019 21:16:30 -0500 Leave 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 […]

]]> 0 c8f3dd630a90077ab4f4b2eec47a248d Brianna Forgione edited the blog post Bad Friendship's at Black Rock in the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12351/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:02:52 -0500 Bad 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 […]

]]> 0 43d860c149d39a0e680348878d8a394f Brianna Forgione joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12098/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 21:47:02 -0500 0 7522083c85f76121b13ad0fc4eb1c0d1 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Poetry to Fiction in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11119/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:40:59 -0500 Although 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 […]

]]> 0 c887b3779b04c1f390b574ee0697ed76 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Working as an Editor in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11004/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 18:57:33 -0500 This 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 […]

]]> 0 207caab18ec98f3f28c985ac1ad32caa Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Intersectionality in Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10975/ Wed, 31 Oct 2018 19:29:20 -0500 Next 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 […]

]]> 0 c6bc48cd23b13924d2cca7520d0fe1bf Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Senior Scaries in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10940/ Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:27:15 -0500 As 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 […]

]]> 0 64f20fea78a4692958ba895c0262aeb3 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post "Scissor" Through in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10901/ Tue, 16 Oct 2018 16:10:15 -0500 Last 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 […]

]]> 0 0865be61f852f9bde80f1c485f96ded0 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Poetry; its good for the soul in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10859/ Wed, 10 Oct 2018 20:13:45 -0500 Everyone 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 […]

]]> 0 ad966d65fe05aa56b95b8c16e09f84b1 Brianna Forgione edited the blog post Gandy Dancer in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10813/ Tue, 02 Oct 2018 18:58:30 -0500 I’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 […]

]]> 0 78f190a2d5c7af16a6ed6f45462252f8 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Organic Form in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10771/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 20:10:30 -0500 This 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 […]

]]> 0 98ca74b99dce7cbcb5d2a83ec90ce420 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Something Borrowed in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10698/ Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:02:28 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 34cff6ac5ca72fe658c8c95d944e6169 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Scansion One in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10612/ Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:49:06 -0500 This 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 […]

]]> 0 76426da3a1e6418a8d2e50ed7e5b5138 Brianna Forgione commented on the post, Thoughts on Prose Poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10523/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:20:36 -0500 Connor,

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 […]

]]> 0 1265e5600ff0d069fdb8203f8a3c605e Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post al"one" in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10521/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 19:15:21 -0500 This 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 […]

]]> 0 ef91c41767c0947c80711757b15631dd Brianna Forgione commented on the post, Tiredness and Writing, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/04/19/tiredness-and-writing/#comment-11786 Thu, 19 Apr 2018 15:56:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> ded8f2660d7c0f8c052a93d05dd329fd Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Workshop Experience in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10014/ Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:00:40 -0500 As 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 […]

]]> 0 1e750666b2c4804cc0d7fb8be741d61c Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Revision Blues in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9973/ Wed, 11 Apr 2018 21:04:59 -0500 The 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 […]

]]> 0 59c75169c1938c1c0060cb2a78458791 Brianna Forgione commented on the post, Putting My Skills To The Test//Writing and Confrontation, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/04/10/putting-my-skills-to-the-test-writing-and-confrontation/#comment-11739 Wed, 11 Apr 2018 20:59:14 -0500 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 […]

]]> 512e5a84c850d5cf9389195324b2cf38 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Keep Moving Forward in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9920/ Wed, 04 Apr 2018 16:03:50 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 9dff5dab2f8c291a9e008c727a62813e Brianna Forgione commented on the post, Learning Curve, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/04/02/learning-curve/#comment-11678 Wed, 04 Apr 2018 15:08:17 -0500 Rachel,

I relate to this blog post. For the longest time, I thought I wanted to major in psychology. I came into my freshman year and was dead set on taking psych classes. I took intro to psych first semester […]

]]> 507bc2e717788bddfe300a4df788291f Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Talented Form in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9883/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:13:24 -0500 According to The Poetry Archive, “Form, in poetry, can be understood as the physical structure of the poem: the length of the lines, their rhythms, their system of rhymes and repetition. In this sense, it is […]

]]> 0 2d7aba08f6f84005b06cac6410110685 Brianna Forgione edited the blog post Be Bold in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9837/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 18:50:21 -0500 This week in class, I decided to step out of my comfort zone and shared a piece that I have been debating on submitting for workshop for a while. This piece contained content that is not often shared with classmates nor discussed comfortably out loud. I noticed that when my piece was being work-shopped, there was a bit of awkwardness between the…[Read more]

]]> 0 5e282e552774fe6a91a0c5d2cc57239d Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post The definition of a poet. in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9773/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 23:58:30 -0500 The other day my friend approached me as I as doing some work and she asked what I was working on. I told her it was for one of my English classes and she said, “I always forget you’re the odd one out.” (meaning […]

]]> 0 02feebafab387c3c0d4e4c147856996d Brianna Forgione commented on the post, Abstract Meaning, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/02/20/2461/#comment-11382 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:29:59 -0500 Gabby,
That’s so interesting that I just wrote a similar blog post about word choice right before I read yours!

I too struggle with just sitting back and enjoying a poem. I always feel like I need to rip it […]

]]> 280a6cc0dd1e6414fc8d5783b759d57c Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post That First Bite in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9720/ Wed, 21 Feb 2018 18:24:37 -0500 That first bite of a apple. Its crisp, juicy, and crunchy. You cringe a little if you’re eating it in a silent room because you know people can hear you, and face it they’re probably annoyed by the sound too. That […]

]]> 0 f494e649ec03040e583c96bc39ff5c09 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Lacking Confidence? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9661/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:57:54 -0500 For the first time ever I submitted some of my poetry to (hopefully) be published online for the ~world~ to see. I submitted my work to Gandy Dancer. By now I would believe that everyone in the SUNY English world […]

]]> 0 fc937a45cd5bf292b6f5e6e7c46f3816 Brianna Forgione commented on the post, in which a silent room of slim shady's wait for the real one to stand up first, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/02/05/in-which-a-silent-room-of-slim-shadys-wait-for-the-real-one-to-stand-up-first/#comment-11270 Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:28:50 -0500 Grace,
Wow, I totally understand what you mean by “Grace Poems” because I too struggle with breaking away from my classic “Bri Poems”. All of my poems tend to look the same or have the same themes. Every time I […]

]]> 5ca7256eb8b61dcc82590b99bf27c4be Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post The Dreaded Writers Block in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9607/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:08:31 -0500 What is writers block? How can I avoid writers block? Does everyone get writers block?

The way I describe writers block is when you (the writer) are at a complete dead stop and can no longer think of anything […]

]]> 0 0e6650b420216b7fcf6462bbdd3ae9d0 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post New Techniques in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9556/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:40:28 -0500 As I sat in class for the first time this week, I couldn’t contain my excitement over the fact that I get to share not only my work but read and engage in my peers work. Surrounding myself with such powerful and […]

]]> 0 9a1e19ac15892c45ea12d7c7e68884b5 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Sound in Writing in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9530/ Mon, 29 Jan 2018 02:11:51 -0500 As a writer, sound plays an important role. Sound varies from on paper to off. Anyone can write something like, “the clock made a ticking noise”. But what did the ticking noise actually sound like? Was it lou […]

]]> 0 fe82f27b9b7ffe916ea2ab04d11c08a7 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post The Ninth Amendment in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9226/ Sun, 10 Dec 2017 20:01:08 -0500 The Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. It is part of the Bill of Rights. In other words, the ninth […]

]]> 0 3efebcfb91b750cbf8f4374e8117fcd3 Brianna Forgione edited the blog post Gender Binary in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9209/ Sat, 09 Dec 2017 21:37:56 -0500 In the beginning of the semester, we were asked to identify the pronouns we prefer to be used when being referred to in class. It came to my attention that not enough teachers put their students preferred gender into consideration. Gender has evolved throughout history and is no longer black and white.

 

Across different religions and…[Read more]

]]> 0 4126b7c9c445fb6697acc6fb1ef09b2a Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Human Rights in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9208/ Sat, 09 Dec 2017 20:41:30 -0500 After reading this article titled, UN poverty official touring Alabama’s Black Belt: ‘I haven’t seen this’ in the First World, I was brought to the focus on human rights. The United Nations describes human rights […]

]]> 0 d9511cdf6c9e799bc07e6077b65f69c1 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Unintentional Ignorance in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9178/ Wed, 06 Dec 2017 23:22:43 -0500 On September 30th I attended a lecture given by author and climate activist Bill McKibben. In his lecture, he was informative and passionate about what he stood for and what he is trying to accomplish in his goal. […]

]]> 0 8299bbe033a1f53ce38d5a484903af74 Brianna Forgione edited the blog post Cultivating Community in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9126/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:56:58 -0500 Yesterday I attended a poetry reading by Christopher Soto. Soto is a poet based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of Sad Girl Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016) and the editor of Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, 2018). Soto read a few original poems and other poems produced by other poets as well.…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9466dd359c95f243b5d1ce615700ddb Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Cultivating Community Initiative in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9125/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:36:54 -0500 Yesterday I attended a poetry reading by Christopher Soto. Soto is a poet based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the author of Sad Girl Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016) and the editor of Nepantla: An Anthology […]

]]> 0 38bf8eac5d7e44f523542a0486e32ee9 Brianna Forgione joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9124/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 17:42:48 -0500 0 2fdbac14641aa4355a1f63adf7dd09b2 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post The Importance in Vocabulary in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9098/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:34:17 -0500 Being an English major on the creative writing track, as a writer we are forced to stray away from cliches and to transform any abstract thoughts or words into concrete words. Abstract words are words that do not […]

]]> 0 bab4c6b96f658624072954c68f215fda Brianna Forgione edited the blog post Consent in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9008/ Sun, 12 Nov 2017 21:51:27 -0500 Throughout the book Clays Arc there has been a reoccurring theme of a lack of consent. Consent is the permission from both parties for something to happen or an agreement to do something. The characters in Clays Arc, Blake, Keira, and Rane, have been taken away from their homes without their consent, and have been forced to live in hiding. While…[Read more]

]]> 0 2881b9233a9319cb7d25f8accf356c6e Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Misdiagnosed in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8911/ Mon, 30 Oct 2017 03:07:49 -0500 “Each year in the U.S., approximately 12 million adults who seek outpatient medical care are misdiagnosed” according to a CBS News article. How is it possible that 12 million people are so easily misdiagnosed I t […]

]]> 0 c3c02e8b459f348cbc52c6c3254eb108 Brianna Forgione wrote a new blog post Here Stands A Man in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8721/ Thu, 28 Sep 2017 17:23:55 -0500 In Tony Morrison’s Home, he creates a connection in the beginning of his book to the end of his book. In the beginning of the book Morrison writes, “They were so beautiful. So brutal. And they stood like men […]

]]> 0 69bb44983d3d86b7de4f63180fb47eb3 Brianna Forgione edited the blog post Racism in Day to Day Occurrences in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8525/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:05:24 -0500 Throughout today’s society, racism is predominant in various culture.

On 9/6 we viewed a Ted Talk on culture. This Ted Talk stood out to me because the speaker, who is from Nigeria, discussed how she had a house boy growing up and throughout her life, the speaker was told on multiple occasions, that their house boy was poor. The speaker grew up…[Read more]

]]> 0 70fd9230b5fbd211e785c3818b8eff48 Brianna Forgione joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8511/ Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:08:44 -0500 0 a603129c8589c0d8812ab1eb5b122301 Brianna Forgione became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8476/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:18:24 -0500 0