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Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Hi everyone!
There is a revision idea that I’ve been tossing around in my head for the past few weeks (maybe someone had previously mentioned it in class?) that I’ve finally put into practice. My idea, which […]
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Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
As I’ve been going back through my poems from this semester, picking out which ones to use and revising the ones I choose, I find myself feeling disappointed with a lot of my earlier poems. I think that this is i […]
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Authorial Intent versus revisions, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Rachel,
Really interesting question. I think that there are lots of variables that go into this revision decision (heh) process. I think that, amongst other things, it depends largely on: who you are as a poet, […]
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, The lines we like define the lines we write, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Hi Lizzie,
Wow! I’m so happy to hear that a line from one of my poems has had such a inspiring effect on you. I completely agree with what you are saying about how we construct a large part of our poetic […]
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Space from autobiographical poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Hi Rachel,
This may not be very helpful, but I am personally not good at heeding the writing rule of thumb that you bring up here (allowing distance between an event and writing about it) and so I am kind of […]
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Who Are Your Favorite Poets to listen to?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
WAIT! To add on to this: there is a poem that I do really enjoy listening to by Gwendolyn Brooks. Give it a listen, it’s so amazing. Here it is:
-Christy
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Who Are Your Favorite Poets to listen to?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Diego,
This post has made me realize how much I have neglected the auditory physicality of poetry! I pretty much never listen to poetry, and always read it. After listening to so much poetry within workshop […]
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Revision Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Jay,
If I’m not excited about the poem and devising new ways for the meaning of it to develop further or if it’s already fully developed to come through to the readers more clearly, that’s when I just open up a […]
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Puns? Wordplay? How does one do?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
Diego & Chloe & Maya,
I also struggle with puns. Whenever I intentionally try (fail) to employ wordplay or make a pun it always ends up being a little bit too overt (in my opinion) and coming off unnecessary, […]
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Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 4 months ago
As I was looking for a poem to use for my “How a Poem’s Sound Happens” presentation I stumbled upon this poem, also by Naomi Shihab Nye (the same poet that I did for my presentation.) I was so immediately drawn i […]
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Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
I’ve come to realize over the course of this workshop that I almost always write people (often indicated by the use of pronouns) into my poetry, and of those people, I almost always include a central voice or poin […]
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Notebooks and the Writing Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 5 months ago
Lizzie,
I have a troubled relationship with notebooks. On the one hand, they fill me with a sense of opportunity and inspiration and excitement – so many beautiful, blank pages! As you were saying, they are […]
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, More Comfortable Writing Poetry than Prose???, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 6 months ago
Chloe & Carolina,
YES. To all of this. I actually find myself feeling that way quite frequently: like I’m struggling and slogging and dragging my feet through the writing of some kind of creative prose, at […]
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, “letters don’t talk” and the tension between poetry and music, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 6 months ago
Hi Nicole,
Wow, I just watched the video of Mary Lambert, and I am in love because I had no idea that she did spoken word poetry. In regards to the tension between words as denoting meaning and words as […]
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Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 7 months ago
I have been thinking a lot lately about our conversation on what we have permission to write/writing in another’s perspective. I’ve really enjoyed hearing what everyone had to say and have a few ideas of my own to […]
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Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Found Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 7 months ago
Hello everyone!
I would have to agree with Arianna. Most aspects of life seem like a regurgitation of ‘stuff’ (to be really general), not just biologically speaking but in the way that we form personality and […]
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Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 7 months ago
While reading through the assigned poems I accidentally flipped back a page and was immediately intrigued by the line “and when they bombed other people’s houses, we.” The lower case “and” beginning gave the […]
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Christy Agrawal joined the group The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 7 months ago
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Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction 8 years, 11 months ago
My brother has often been described as “the smartest person he’s ever met.” Talking to him usually involves receiving some variety of a lecture—even when you enter into a discussion with the hopes of agreeing with […]
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Christy Agrawal joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction 8 years, 11 months ago
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