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Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Reading through Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 4 months ago
For my WGST-310: Race, Class, and Gender class, we have been reading Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen”. It’s a book of lyric poetry that examines issues of(you guessed it) race, class, and gender in the United States. I […]
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Connor Keihl commented on the post, Intersectionality in Poetry, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 4 months ago
Bri,
I hope your paper is coming along nicely! I think addressing this paper in reference to your poetry is a good idea. I’ve had trouble personally deciding what to write for this paper. It probably would’ve […]
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Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Bo Burnham’s Egghead in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 4 months ago
The first book of poems I ever bought was Bo Burnham’s Egghead. I bought his book after watching his first Netflix stand up comedy special, what. The collection of poems is rather silly and humorous, but th […]
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Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Revising Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 4 months ago
Most of my poems make me nervous because the genre feels very flexible. Almost too flexible. The different forms and paths you can take a poem down sometimes overwhelm me. This is one reason why I love reading […]
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Connor Keihl commented on the post, Embarking On A New Journey… (Genre), on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 4 months ago
Hey! I too will be in the CNF workshop next semester. I’ve taken two CNF workshops (one wasn’t at Geneseo), but I’ve never taken a class with the professor for next semester’s course.
Since this is my first […]
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Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Fluidity in Language in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months ago
After reading David Herd’s Through, as well as having time to talk with him in our class, and finally getting to hear him read in Doty, I went home thinking about the ways language is fluid. Herd talked to us […]
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Connor Keihl commented on the post, ~through~ on a bicycle, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 5 months ago
Natalie,
To echo Julia, thank you for sharing your drawing with us! I really like your point about half of “Through” not being written for you, as well as Herd rendering just enough of his text inaccessible. I […]
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Connor Keihl commented on the post, Paper or… pixels?, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 5 months ago
Hi Daniel!
Thanks for sharing your own process. Similarly, I have pretty awful handwriting, and although I can read it, I don’t really like writing things by hand all that much. It’s too slow to keep me […]
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Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post “Through” and Borderlands in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months ago
From my reading of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands, and from our reading and discussion of Through in class, I’ve been thinking about spaces. Anzaldúa notes that a “borderland is a vague and undetermined place crea […]
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Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Portfolio Decisions in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months ago
After work-shopping my first poem, I decided I wanted to do something different with my second poem. Largely I’ve found myself writing poems about relationships, and love, I suppose, but there’s so many ways to […]
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Connor Keihl commented on the post, txt talk, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 5 months ago
Hi Natalie,
Just the other day I was having a conversation with my sister and she used a word (I’ve already forgotten it) that just caught my attention. So, I repeated the word out-loud, which she took as me […]
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Connor Keihl commented on the post, The Rewriting Process, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 5 months ago
Hi Sarah!
After finishing my first two rewrites, I can honestly say that I’m still uncomfortable with the process. I tell myself that it’s what I have to/am supposed to do, but I still feel like I’m infringing […] -
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Regret in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months ago
This past week, author Hilary Zaid performed a reading of a chapter from her novel Paper is White. I attended this reading knowing little about Zaid, but I’ve always enjoyed hearing authors read their own work. […]
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Connor Keihl commented on the post, Like Carbon, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 5 months ago
Hi Julia!
Robin Williams is fantastic in that movie. I’ve always felt like a writer. I never want to give it up, even if I never end up making some sort of career out of it. Growing up wanting to write, though, […] -
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post “A Note on Stress” from Hass in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months ago
Perhaps some of you are scansion wizards already, but my first attempt at our scansions did not go great. It was my first attempt at it on my own, so I can cut myself some slack, but I still hope to improve. I […]
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Connor Keihl commented on the post, How to Steal to Start, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
I really like that idea, Mya. I didn’t try to steal a line from a poem for that exercise, but I find myself often connecting my writing to others’ writing. I feel like sometimes I need a jumping off point too. It […]
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Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post How the Words Won’t Stop Hip-Hopping in my Head in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
I have an obsession. It’s something I’ve carried around in my head since my childhood and I carry it with me now. When I’m in class and my thoughts drift, when I’m doing chores around the house, or when I’m alone, […]
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Connor Keihl commented on the post, writing (re: ranting) about writing, on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
Hi Natalie! Writing about my family has always frightened me, too. I’ve written a lot about my close friends and other people in my life, but I’ve avoided writing about my living family members for the most part. […]
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Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Reflections on Form in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
I have never seen myself as a poet. I write things, and poetry is typically written, so in that way I can see myself as a poet, but I don’t feel at home in poetry. We discussed form a lot in our last class and […]
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