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Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Reading through Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 9 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 […]
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Bo Burnham’s Egghead in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 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 […]
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Revising Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 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 […]
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Fluidity in Language in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 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 […]
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post “Through” and Borderlands in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 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 […]
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Portfolio Decisions in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 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 […]
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Regret in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 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. […]
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post “A Note on Stress” from Hass in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 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 […]
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post How the Words Won’t Stop Hip-Hopping in my Head in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 11 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, […]
Connor Keihl wrote a new blog post Reflections on Form in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 12 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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