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Codie Hazen wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 11 months ago
I don’t want to cold call anyone out here, but this is specifically a question for people who have been in other (poetry or otherwise) workshops before, especially those run by another professor. As a person […]
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Codie Hazen commented on the post, Exercises, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 11 months ago
Margot, I definitely experienced something similar to you. Because I refuse to even post exercises until I’ve beaten and edited them to death, they are basically unrecognizable except for ones like the city and […]
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Codie Hazen commented on the post, Who are your favorite poets? From the past or the present, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 11 months ago
I know it’s super problematic that if someone asks you to name a queer spoken word poet, 99% of people our age will say Andrea Gibson. But I spent so many middle school nights listening to and memorizing her poems […]
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Codie Hazen commented on the post, Creative Intersections, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 11 months ago
I used to play the clarinet and bassoon, but since I had to return the instruments to my high school when I graduated, I can’t really do that anymore. One of my suitemates recently bought a ukulele, so I’ve been […]
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Codie Hazen commented on the post, Swearing in Poems?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 11 months ago
I once watched a video about how curse words are stored in a different (more emotionally-charged) part of the brain than other words. I’m not sure how accurate this is, but I like to think that it’s true and that […]
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Codie Hazen commented on the post, Endless Revision, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 12 months ago
Kind of along the lines of what Chloe said, I also submitted a piece to Gandy Dancer that I wasn’t sure exactly how much more to revise. Personally, I revise a ton before I even upload exercises or submit them to […]
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Codie Hazen commented on the post, Someday My Prince Will Come And Rub Ointment On My Gills Because I’m Itchy, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 12 months ago
Margot, I also often find one line that sticks with me from a song. Right now, I’m obsessed with the line “if the wind blows strong then learn to bend” from Coyote Grace’s “Little Tree”. Anyhow, I’m most inspired […]
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Codie Hazen commented on the post, On Motivation, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 12 months ago
I think it’s awesome that Evan is able to write in a routine. While I love schedules, I can’t ever just sit and make myself write something, if there isn’t already some idea in my head, it’s just not going to […]
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Codie Hazen commented on the post, Geneseo Writing Community & the Poet-tree, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 12 months ago
I had some friends that took a class last semester all about writing cover letters and applying to internships. I wish we had a class or group that was focused specifically on obtaining internships with literary […]
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Codie Hazen wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 12 months ago
Hi friends!
So if you haven’t yet looked at the poems being workshopped tomorrow (or if you’re on your game, try to do this for the ones being workshopped next week), it might be fun to try this exercise. Try […]
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Codie Hazen wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years ago
I was thinking about how we were talking about politics and poetry the other day, how we sometimes get carried away in the social justice issues that rise out of poems in workshop. I’ve realized that this is what […]
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Codie Hazen wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 1 month ago
The poetry exercise this week was about putting people in conversation with one another in a poem, and I started thinking about this concept in a more literal sense. When I was involved in slam, group pieces were […]
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Codie Hazen commented on the post, My Relationship with the Ampersand, on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 2 months ago
I’m going to echo Amy and Lytton on the “&” creating a closer pairing than using the word “and”, but I personally use it mostly for spacing as a whole. I know that it’s only two characters less than spelling out […]
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Codie Hazen wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 2 months ago
I started doing competitive slam poetry at the age of 14. I didn’t have any actual poetry background, as teachers in school just told us to write poetry without explaining anything about craft or what makes a poem […]
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Codie Hazen joined the group The Contemporary Poem 9 years, 2 months ago
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