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Chloe Forsell wrote a new blog post The Cultural Essay: What is “culture” anyway? in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 6 years, 11 months ago
This is a question I have been asking myself a lot lately.
This semester, I’ve taken on several projects which have necessitated a lot of self exploration. Through this exploration, I’ve been forced to come […]
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Chloe Forsell edited the blog post A link! Check it out! in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years ago
Hi poetry world!
Below is a link to 1989, The Number, “an exploration of the year 1989 through politics, personal history and culture. This chapbook plays like a mixtape incorporating the hottest records and stories of ’89 and reflecting their relevance for today. For hip-hop heads ’89 was the peak of the Golden Era and the Crack Epidemic. For…[Read more]
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Chloe Forsell edited the blog post Book Reviews in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years ago
I thought I’d share my reviews of the books of poetry I’ve been working closely with for my project! I highly recommend getting your hands of both of these. They’re very different, but I got a lot from reading them, particularly from reading them sort of in conversation with each other.
Disclaimer: I still haven’t finished Cannibal. It is a…[Read more]
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Chloe Forsell wrote a new blog post Here’s what I’ve been doing all semester! in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years ago
This is mostly a preliminary post to explain why I will be inundating the blog with posts over the next week or so.
I spent last semester studying abroad in Montpellier. Under the crescent-moon indigo skies of […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, Transitions in Source Material, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 2 months ago
Amanda,
I really like this idea of getting outside yourself by writing exclusively about other people, other moments. So my first recommendation is actually kind of an exercise more than a specific source. You […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, Pollen For Thought, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 2 months ago
Alexa,
My first recommendation after reading your source list is actually a list of tools to help you find more sources, rather than a source itself. I don’t know if you use Spotify, or if you’re familiar wit […]
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Chloe Forsell edited the blog post My s*** is all over the place in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 2 months ago
I like categories. I like to split things into groups, split the groups into groups. I spent the last semester taking most of my notes on a computer. When I looked back at them, I noticed the amount of space on the page wasted to indentations, to margins before bullets, roman numerals, capitalized and lower-cased letters. Here, I should offer a…[Read more]
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Chloe Forsell joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction 8 years, 2 months ago
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Chloe Forsell wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 3 months ago
So I started really trying to put my portfolio together this week… meaning REVISIONS, REVISIONS, REVISIONS. I know we have talked a lot about revisions both in class and on the blog, but I can’t help making a […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, Don’t Despair!, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 3 months ago
Christy,
Thanks for posting this. It’s not something I had ever considered either, but it is such an important thing to recognize! I bet a lot of the poems I love love love started out just as shitty as mine […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, Puns? Wordplay? How does one do?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Diego,
I think it’s funny that you cited my poem as an example of a pun, because this is something I have struggled with this semester, too. In fact, before this semester I had never even thought about puns in […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, Writing Prompt- Snapshots, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Lizzie,
I love this prompt. I’m someone who LOVES to write from images (photography is one of my sort of interests in that I think it’s pretty dope but also have no real skill or knowledge beyond how to use a […]
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Chloe Forsell wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Last week’s writing exercise, a translation, left me with a poem that was far from a translation. Did anyone else have this experience? I attempted to translate “La langue de ma mère,” a French poem. I have a d […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, An Idea for Your Next Poem(s)!, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Jay,
Also want to give a huge shout out to this post. I’m spend a lot of time exploring different photographer’s websites, and am more than often inspired, but have never tried to write a poem about any of […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, a Note About Different Poetry Views from the Past, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Arianna,
First, I love your summaries of the different perspectives on poetry. They are both amusing and informative!
I think another interesting writing exercise would be to try to write poetry as each of […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, The Editing Itch and Other Ideas, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Nicole,
I experience my poetry in a completely opposite way. When I “finish” writing a poem, particularly one that I don’t like/ am having a hard time with, I completely ignore it for a very long time. My poems […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, How People View Language Differently, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Meghan (and Arianna),
I really like the way that you broke this problem down, distinguishing between a word’s denotation, connotation, and “sound-meaning” (is there a word for this?). It’s a really great way to […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, Poetry and Life, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Carolina,
Great post. I think another thing that a lot of people don’t realize is that all undergrad degrees get you pretty much the same thing career-wise. Unless you’re pre-med or something, a bachelor’s […]
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Chloe Forsell wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Something I’ve been thinking about lately, now in my second consecutive semester of taking a poetry workshop (in other words thinking actively and often about poetry), is when one crosses the bridge from being u […]
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Chloe Forsell commented on the post, The Omnipresent Narrator, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Meghan,
I think a lot of the questions you posed here relating to what it means to attempt to write as a marginalized identity of which you are not a part is a complex conversation that will likely continue […]
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