English @ SUNY Geneseo | Christy Agrawal | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/christy/activity/ Activity feed for Christy Agrawal. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 5cd0012ad42fd33dfd1170cbbc09c1d8 Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=843 Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:58:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> 416fa58761b32b589941fb024af30f0d Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=830 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 01:12:30 -0500 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 […]

]]> 33b3a6a2e6076b070be301922ddeeb06 Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Authorial Intent versus revisions, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/12/10/authorial-intent-versus-revisions/comment-page-1/#comment-6927 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:45:20 -0500 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, […]

]]> ecad5775e73d6c7dddc362ca21cca40a Christy Agrawal commented on the post, The lines we like define the lines we write, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/12/10/the-lines-we-like-define-the-lines-we-write/comment-page-1/#comment-6926 Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:26:54 -0500 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 […]

]]> 1894b4f737492a5571de83f67934bd57 Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Space from autobiographical poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/12/07/space-from-autobiographical-poems/#comment-6903 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 04:14:38 -0500 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 […]

]]> e28e626474f9da3f6e693832119f3df5 Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Who Are Your Favorite Poets to listen to?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/28/who-are-your-favorite-poets-to-listen-to/#comment-6898 Mon, 07 Dec 2015 20:16:12 -0500 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

]]> e153c7d3fb1749e6f2e560c7d580374e Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Who Are Your Favorite Poets to listen to?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/28/who-are-your-favorite-poets-to-listen-to/#comment-6892 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 20:21:31 -0500 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 […]

]]> 55e7537755d51e2172791afb92a28c93 Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Revision Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/28/revision-process/#comment-6891 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 20:03:32 -0500 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 […]

]]> 31bf75edf1406de242d926f3a93d368e Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Puns? Wordplay? How does one do?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/29/puns-wordplay-how-does-one-do/#comment-6890 Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:51:36 -0500 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, […]

]]> 9a98173b623acfb4d68dd02892dd36e1 Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=812 Fri, 04 Dec 2015 22:21:14 -0500 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 […]

]]> 3ec3b7445dd565eac1f8751916be2524 Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=745 Fri, 06 Nov 2015 23:25:45 -0500 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 […]

]]> a6d356673b030f8a7159f7d0b53ebd2a Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Notebooks and the Writing Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/30/notebooks-and-the-writing-process/#comment-6582 Thu, 29 Oct 2015 17:07:50 -0500 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 […]

]]> 2e363ca871f60bd888539b7d6fbdbd2f Christy Agrawal commented on the post, More Comfortable Writing Poetry than Prose???, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/15/more-comfortable-writing-poetry-than-prose/#comment-6491 Sat, 17 Oct 2015 19:15:37 -0500 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 […]

]]> 50fce1a9ee43d2ddb41c2dc66a01c7ef Christy Agrawal commented on the post, "letters don't talk" and the tension between poetry and music, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/07/letters-dont-talk-and-the-tension-between-poetry-and-music/#comment-6362 Sat, 10 Oct 2015 22:42:58 -0500 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 […]

]]> cb309207d9f900cea017d8914a18e0b3 Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=650 Thu, 17 Sep 2015 18:16:16 -0500 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 […]

]]> 37bfc530216cff0aa4e9b3af195dbfd1 Christy Agrawal commented on the post, Found Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/07/found-poetry/#comment-6013 Wed, 09 Sep 2015 01:03:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0dcb10fc3719b9c852996d341622fbda Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=620 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 23:19:04 -0500 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 […]

]]> eff2ba2bd7d80a284ed4887d25257da2 Christy Agrawal joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5085/ Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:42:50 -0500 0 42517142c06c960be0fd035a89c170a0 Christy Agrawal wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=577 Mon, 25 May 2015 22:16:50 -0500 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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