English @ SUNY Geneseo | Connor Keihl | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/cpkeihl/activity/ Activity feed for Connor Keihl. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 899d76f0ced9ad44ca19ce8c975ca893 Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Reading through Claudia Rankine's "Citizen" in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11114/ Tue, 13 Nov 2018 22:52:01 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 bd808d480d3b67e76e6b799fdcbc7257 Connor Keihl commented on the post, Intersectionality in Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11003/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 17:53:02 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 e01f4cf73fa0d3439eb3df027132897d Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Bo Burnham's Egghead in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10997/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:43:26 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 354ab7c2d567366131d9db9f475a7c5c Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Revising Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10963/ Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:55:14 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 cb2ce7ff4a78986029ee71b6217c92d5 Connor Keihl commented on the post, Embarking On A New Journey... (Genre), on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10962/ Sun, 28 Oct 2018 18:25:39 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 89100846895e01a4d762ec0bdf471da1 Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Fluidity in Language in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10927/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 19:40:50 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 346027c5a7a7146a3ce9a8c65f4808ce Connor Keihl commented on the post, ~through~ on a bicycle, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10926/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 19:18:52 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 d81d8062fd564376bc3d3bdf79e8bfa1 Connor Keihl commented on the post, Paper or... pixels?, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10867/ Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:25:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 3599155631e4ff7d304536e41ea19512 Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post "Through" and Borderlands in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10866/ Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:05:22 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 67c301ec3c5fd6de3fe43bca9cf3754a Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Portfolio Decisions in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10861/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:37:59 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 375700c83fb746273ca0e01acf17ac39 Connor Keihl commented on the post, txt talk, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10860/ Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:20:22 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 07c1d03d451b996107b422f4760e4dcf Connor Keihl commented on the post, The Rewriting Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10801/ Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:52:52 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 72b1844e37016b46ef3e69f9f8974427 Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Regret in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10800/ Sun, 30 Sep 2018 19:39:11 -0500 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. […]

]]> 0 99ec7de5cc324c3a12115ce691b7d2c7 Connor Keihl commented on the post, Like Carbon, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10745/ Sun, 23 Sep 2018 17:17:10 -0500 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, […]

]]> 0 bf5eb8bbe2173317e787f9aa43b33fa3 Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post "A Note on Stress" from Hass in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10744/ Sun, 23 Sep 2018 17:06:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 acf916a126723b296912da0dd0f9e148 Connor Keihl commented on the post, How to Steal to Start, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10728/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 14:22:30 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 72ac087b6238a027368f0c89e119b8d7 Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post How the Words Won't Stop Hip-Hopping in my Head in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10657/ Thu, 13 Sep 2018 22:04:02 -0500 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, […]

]]> 0 5bbaf264df23a11048825ce1e3300278 Connor Keihl changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10656/ Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:31:59 -0500 0 9663faa9e6c247644a26ace0a6408dc6 Connor Keihl commented on the post, writing (re: ranting) about writing, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10614/ Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:07:39 -0500 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. […]

]]> 0 02402f12e8e794db39b224a7fc346cd7 Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Reflections on Form in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10613/ Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:56:41 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 f711ba6350b1e1288156b4342b391f68 Connor Keihl commented on the post, taking steps toward my writing career. finally., on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10464/ Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:15:24 -0500 Congratulations! That’s a very exciting experience. Rejection is definitely part of the writer’s journey. As someone who’s always sort of identified as a writer, I still can’t really say what I exactly plan to do […]

]]> 0 7c70893513d6835538a5ac8f0dd8bac1 Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Thoughts on Prose Poems in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10378/ Thu, 30 Aug 2018 19:24:24 -0500 Two years ago, I took a creative writing workshop that covered poetry. We also discussed and wrote CNF, as well as fiction pieces, but we began the semester writing poetry. The professor’s explanation for […]

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