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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post Look at this really pretentious thing I wrote in my journal in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 4 months ago“What was the question?
THE FORMATION OF THE HUMAN BEING IS LIKE THE SPORADIC UNEXPECTED WATERCOLOR, THE INK BLOCK TEST OF THE POST PREHISTORIC PERIOD, THE DIAGNOSIS OF WHATEVER CAME […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post D!$$ in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months agoHow come there is no diss culture in poetry? Or is there one and I just spend too much time listening to Outkast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below? Anyway, I wonder if there are poems out there were poets are […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post Poetry Freestyle/Off the dome/ in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months agoI saw the tree yesterday
and it told me that your poetry was wack
that you couldn’t even attack a sack
full of thumbtacks cause you’re too
scared of having a boo boo
your poetry is doo doo while […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post On the politics of Sandra María Esteves’ Tropical Rain: A Bilingual Downpour, or politics in poetry in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months ago“Has the Puerto Rican necessity outgrown itself?
When North Americans still bomb Vieques
And Nuevayorquinos dine on Entiman’s
Not wanting to be political
Closing their eyes to slow death torture
Of […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post On Juan B. Nina’s Use of Time in Poemas de Ocasiones in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 5 months agoFor my directed study I am focusing on bilingual poetry, so I’ve been reading books in English and Spanish. Juan B. Nina’s Poemas de Ocasiones is completely in Spanish from front cover to back cover, but what I […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post Para Cenar Habrá Nostalgia de Fior E. Plasencia in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 6 months agoFior E. Plasencia comienza su colección de poems con un prólogo en Español e Inglés. Del lado izquierdo es el Inglés y del lado derecho es el Español. Esta colección es fluida con su bilingüismo y sus imágene […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena edited the blog post Sources I turn to… in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 7 months ago1) I turn to my mother sweating over the assembly line wondering if she’ll have enough money to make rent
–there’s some kind of vulnerability and ah ah ah strength to keep going or maybe an acceptance of who we are
2) I turn to my father showing me how to use the bathroom so I wouldn’t spray on the floor
–A boy becomes man a man becomes…[Read more]
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Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Transitions in Source Material, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 7 months ago
Hey Amanda,
I don’t know why but your use of the word “mundane” reminded me of a poem in Paul Éluard’s “Capital of Pain.” The poem is called “Obsession,” but I would recommend the entire collection because it […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Only With Coffee And Hope, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 7 months ago
Hey Steven,
I struggle with a lot of the things that you struggle with too, but I don’t really like coffee–unless it’s Bustelo–and hope is overrated nowadays.
I recommend “No Longer Human” by Osamu Dazai. […]
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You ain’t gotta tell me twice! What if we were to consider disciplines like we consider languages? Then, how different would conversations about studying two disciplines be? A polyglot is pretty impressive! 8 years ago
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This is very interesting! I wonder if there is a form of interdisciplinarity that works in one nation, but not in the United States? Perhaps, interdisciplinarity lost in translation? 8 years ago
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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 9 months ago
One of the things that I have noticed in a lot of my fellow poet’s writing is that they include puns and wordplay. And I really like this but it has always been a hard thing for me to do. What is it that makes a […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 9 months ago
From the Fishhouse came with a CD and I’ve been listening to it a lot lately. And I really like what some of the poets sound like when they read. Especially Kate Northrop when she reads her poem The Film because I […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 9 months ago
Happy Thanksgiving!
So I’ve started to think of my poems as living beings. And I’ve been wondering about what happens to them before they were written on loose leaf. Because of Christy, I’ve noticed that almost […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 9 months ago
While looking for the definition of alliteration on google I discovered that it is defined as, “the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.” I feel sad that […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 9 months ago
I sometimes am bored. Like I am now, sitting alone in my suite’s lounge, in my underwear waiting to go home in the morning. Roseanne Barn (Barr?) just asked James Corden to help her roll up her spanks.
Anyway, […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, How People View Language Differently, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 9 months ago
Language is funny, especially the English language. That’s how I feel about language–I feel like it’s a running joke that no matter how hard we try we will never understand. And that’s the best thing about […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Writing in Advanced Poetry Workshop I vs. Advanced Poetry Workshop II, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 9 months ago
I wholeheartedly agree with your post Chloe. Having been in Poetry I with both you and Arianna, I can say that I have definitely been straying away from the prompts. Even though I love sound in poetry I do find it […]
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Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, More Comfortable Writing Poetry than Prose???, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 9 months ago
I don’t believe that someone can be more comfortable with writing poetry than or vice versa. I consider myself a fiction writer, unfortunately, but I believe that prose and poetry blend together for me. When I […]
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