English @ SUNY Geneseo | Diego Barcacel Pena | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/djbp123/activity/ Activity feed for Diego Barcacel Pena. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 08794d9811a6e29977d1c15a864b25b8 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8323/ Tue, 02 May 2017 01:45:28 -0500               

“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 […]

]]> 0 8121f3e158ceb6dfeaf10c1a6ffc399e Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post D!$$ in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8203/ Mon, 10 Apr 2017 21:54:53 -0500 How 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 […]

]]> 0 5d4724ec95de609aab576f56b3929e16 Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post Poetry Freestyle/Off the dome/ in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8163/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 19:38:35 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 7604658991ce7f61375e0b71cd7a9086 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8162/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 19:27:58 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 4fd04b1846a5b6a5c9a05c6467e9a9e4 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8161/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 18:31:57 -0500 For 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 […]

]]> 0 6a89515b49900c484038639d58ca624c Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post Para Cenar Habrá Nostalgia de Fior E. Plasencia in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7971/ Sun, 19 Feb 2017 14:14:48 -0500 Fior 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 […]

]]> 0 1b861715705fd31bec3002ebb3b5fdce Diego Barcacel Pena edited the blog post Sources I turn to... in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7740/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:14:35 -0500 1) 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]

]]> 0 138b9d8acbff4d4c084e2254471ff84b Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Transitions in Source Material, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/01/17/transitions-in-source-material/#comment-9110 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 17:12:32 -0500 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 […]

]]> 46543479290fb173b883acfa2915480e Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Only With Coffee And Hope, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/01/18/only-with-coffee-and-hope/#comment-9109 Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:42:26 -0500 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. […]

]]> b6fdb63b01376fda44af4daa2a4088bb Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Living the Interdisciplinarity Life, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/02/living-the-interdisciplinarity-life/#comment-62 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 22:41:15 -0500 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!

]]> ef0fa6d43f95f6b07f02c2f94d57e20a Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, American Education and Interdisciplinarity, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/01/american-education-and-interdisciplinarity/#comment-61 Sat, 03 Sep 2016 22:34:50 -0500 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?

]]> be84f7cafc73751fd444a9325fc13830 Diego Barcacel Pena joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6835/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:13:24 -0500 0 3cb59005e727028245a1723a90e39367 Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=796 Mon, 30 Nov 2015 03:48:54 -0500 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 […]

]]> 56feebbee354e7769d1e19207f86e289 Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=789 Sun, 29 Nov 2015 01:57:29 -0500 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 […]

]]> cbf7f079ea33943be62654f39feaa7b9 Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=786 Thu, 26 Nov 2015 18:11:27 -0500 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 […]

]]> 637cf7e073c4235e78b02a77719c522c Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=784 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 14:56:19 -0500 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 […]

]]> b4c051947f14f3e7b7abc34dd1c25a01 Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=781 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 05:58:07 -0500 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, […]

]]> dac0d6ec9dfb8761b24e8bd12ca743b6 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, How People View Language Differently, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/01/how-people-view-language-differently/#comment-6769 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 05:30:29 -0500 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 […]

]]> 931fd95eca014daeba5031617f7e576a Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Writing in Advanced Poetry Workshop I vs. Advanced Poetry Workshop II, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/13/writing-in-advanced-poetry-workshop-i-vs-advanced-poetry-workshop-ii/#comment-6768 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 05:15:44 -0500 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 […]

]]> 14b3226b2fd98dad5b5301b630bea4de Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, More Comfortable Writing Poetry than Prose???, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/15/more-comfortable-writing-poetry-than-prose/#comment-6766 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 04:14:39 -0500 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 […]

]]> e1b676098a512d4ebfd9e143f009c3d9 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, An Idea for Your Next Poem(s)!, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/26/an-idea-for-your-next-poems/#comment-6765 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 03:52:36 -0500 Hey Gatsby! I was in that class with you and I remember those photos too!

This is a great prompt for me because I do find myself looking at paintings everyday. Or more realistically, I find myself looking at […]

]]> 5e3599e7344282f2fb2bad1223c5faad Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=779 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 03:41:07 -0500 I am in love with the show Twin Peaks. Like really in love with it. Ask any of my friends, I dare you, and they’ll tell you that it’s all I talk about. Last semester I wrote a poem that used characters from Twin […]

]]> 319f890058319277632f82333ee3e686 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, In Which the Revelatory "THIS Is What I'll Do With My English Degree" Strikes Again, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/23/in-which-the-revelatory-this-is-what-ill-do-with-my-english-degree-strikes-again/#comment-6764 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 03:31:11 -0500 We should all join the circus. That’s like the coolest job in the world. I remember going to the circus when I was little and it looked so cool. I would try my hardest to make children laugh.

What’s the point […]

]]> a019d3d28d600fc81c4b2fa7ad6ecde5 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, a Note About Different Poetry Views from the Past, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/10/28/a-note-about-different-poetry-views-from-the-past/#comment-6763 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 03:18:00 -0500 Thanks for mentioning me in your comment, Marley. It makes my heart feel really, really, really, really, really, and very warm. I love it when people, especially Lytton, can find different things in my poetry–it […]

]]> abe8801b34dd567d73d5c6b55f42cf31 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Writing Prompt: Drawing Inspiration from Art, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/04/writing-prompt-drawing-inspiration-from-art/#comment-6762 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 03:03:39 -0500 This is a really rough poem on The Son of Man painting by Rene Margritte:

The apple man,
is what I call you.
There’s an apple
floating in front of
you. Can you see
me?

Have you considered
baldwin […]

]]> 69d32017aa6b85e18217f83278182606 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, The "I" in Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/06/the-i-in-poetry/#comment-6761 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:48:24 -0500 You made think about all the poems I have written and what I found out is that, just like you, I almost always write people into my poetry. I mean from just looking at the poems that I wrote for this class alone […]

]]> 11c6d7d49991847bb9fe123511ac1970 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Poems that Fit Together, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/04/poems-that-fit-together/#comment-6760 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:32:51 -0500 I’m sorry to Dr. Smith but two of the hardest things I have ever had to do in his class are organizing my portfolio and not move while seated. I have to move when I’m seated, I can’t stay still. But anyway that’s […]

]]> 10188917a725b16bcab8cdb809ee129a Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Seemingly ordinary things, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/08/752/#comment-6759 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:17:11 -0500 This post really blew my mind. I, now, realize that I don’t really pay much to what my friends say. I always look at what they say at surface value, not below and not above–mostly because my friends and I say a […]

]]> bd2bd7367d4141b06b38e8e303c495b8 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Post Poetry Class Blues, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/08/post-poetry-class-blues/#comment-6758 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 02:00:01 -0500 I think that the best way of staying involved in poetry is to keep writing poetry. I’m going to go through the same thing, Arianna. Next semester I won’t be taking a poetry workshop, which sucks because poetry is […]

]]> a43b00fffe4610d18fce3b6390ccd943 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Writing Prompt, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/16/writing-prompt/#comment-6757 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 01:45:59 -0500 I really like the Italian word. The stain left on a table from a cold glass of water describes my life so well. This post was very informative to me and it made me wonder of words in my native language, Spanish, […]

]]> ce974f4bb504a363eceae8153c5dc5ee Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Punctuation, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/18/punctuation/#comment-6756 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 01:33:52 -0500 Punctuation, especially in poetry, is a funny thing. In fiction, nonfiction, and sometimes even prose poetry (prose poetry being a tricky one), punctuation is simple to understand. For example a period ends a […]

]]> aa185e0348a3a09ab922a9338aee315f Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, An Expansion, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/11/22/an-expansion/#comment-6755 Wed, 25 Nov 2015 01:22:04 -0500 I guess that creating characters in poetry is easy for me because even if the character I have created seems to have nothing in common with my life, it usually does. This the trick I use for creating characters in […]

]]> 0fecf4923aad6f3659f78c5efda8ab10 Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=599 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:55:44 -0500 I have this thing for syllables. The first thing I do when I read a poem is count the syllables of each line. I enjoy a poem that has the same amount of syllables in each line. Christian Barter does not do this. […]

]]> 5245acbffc1d51d948ff66a11edf6589 Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=560 Mon, 04 May 2015 22:42:37 -0500 I remember being forced to do a project on a nonfiction book about manatees in the 4th grade. It was the dullest book I had ever read. There were dull sentences like, “The manatee breeds once every two years,” and […]

]]> a6cdec45372de1413b2d4a0bdbcf782f Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=571 Mon, 04 May 2015 21:53:57 -0500 I know this is a hard question to answer, but I think it would be interesting to see everyone’s different opinions.

Do you want to know my favorite poets? I’m not sure–you kind of put me on the spot–but I’ll […]

]]> 994c0be570249757fa1793bcc4213848 Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=566 Mon, 04 May 2015 19:14:41 -0500 Last night I had a discussion with some fellow poets about whether poetry is capable of dying. Poetry has been around us since we, as humans, have been able to speak, so we know that poetry has survived. But is […]

]]> 02ec24f4ef63be7e212ac8bde7ed2a9a Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Creative Intersections, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/02/creative-intersections/#comment-4834 Mon, 04 May 2015 06:21:22 -0500 I don’t do much. Most of the time I stay in my bed watching Manga hauls on Youtube until my mother forces me to get groceries from the nearby supermarket. I mostly read and this summer I’m going to try to read my […]

]]> 7649766b3b89c19981c15ca4f9b11e03 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Stuck in Revision, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/03/stuck-in-revision/#comment-4833 Mon, 04 May 2015 06:06:02 -0500 Margot is so right, the struggle is real and I am in denial.

Sarah,
When my brain stuffs itself off, I fall into a state where all of my revisions are done. I am happy and I am calm. And then I fall back into […]

]]> bd849990293a01befbf35f21b05b0e00 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Swearing in Poems?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/05/03/swearing-in-poems/#comment-4832 Mon, 04 May 2015 05:52:28 -0500 I think curses are beautiful. Not everyone can be the Seinfeld or Fresh Prince of poetry. I believe that curses illustrate that raw emotion where there’s nothing else to say but “fuck.” And I also believe “fuck” […]

]]> 4120208a6205863b7042839b2811678c Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Geneseo Writing Community & the Poet-tree, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/30/geneseo-writing-community-the-poet-tree/#comment-4795 Fri, 01 May 2015 16:29:26 -0500 I think that more pop-up events could be interesting. Students could read poetry on the green. Read poetry during Mics and Mochas. Also, I think it would be cool to have a collaboration with the Geneseo Jazz […]

]]> 563251d3caa3db769c9a37579c34908e Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, On Motivation, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/27/on-motivation/#comment-4721 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:52:03 -0500 I feel that people don’t give being lazy the credit that it deserves. I am the laziest person in the world, but it’s when I’m lazy that I get motivated. (Is this a paradox?) (A contradiction?) I get most of my […]

]]> 9b9a20b25968c124cb9bea8a5240043c Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Endless Revision, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/27/endless-revision/#comment-4720 Mon, 27 Apr 2015 20:43:14 -0500 No, you are not crazy! I feel the exact same way. I’ve never gotten the “okay, NOW this poem is completely finished and perfect” feeling either. I always find something wrong in my poems. I’m not sure how […]

]]> e4da2d5bc02b59f30840daa9fa62f163 Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=525 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:17:19 -0500 Dear Friends,

I’ve been listening to Bill Evan’s “Someday My Prince Will Come.” The overall feel and mood of the song makes me want to write something. I’ve been jotting a few things down and so far the only […]

]]> 021f307b01a3733301521c225eef4b13 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Literary Doodles, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/11/literary-doodles/#comment-320 Sat, 11 Apr 2015 18:59:24 -0500 Speaking of literary doodles, have you heard of Yoshihiro Tatsumi? He was a famous Manga artist–he died about a month ago, unfortunately–who was known for Gekiga. Gekiga was a literary movement in Japan during […]

]]> 9a2ca8678e1abf4a793414d776aa04a5 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, Getting in the Mood... (for Writing), on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/07/getting-in-the-mood-for-writing/#comment-4412 Sat, 11 Apr 2015 06:39:11 -0500 I usually write between 1am to 4am. I usually write with music playing. I can’t have the music playing through ear buds because it’s too distracting. I usually have The Smiths’s, “Heaven knows I’m Miserable Now” […]

]]> 291a98deba98a3d0788f2943b883d67c Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=513 Sat, 11 Apr 2015 06:10:36 -0500 With my hearing being not as good as when I was a younger man, I think about sound in poetry. I believe that sound is one of the most important things in poetry, if not the most important thing. Whenever I hear […]

]]> 54b35981322b90bf82321070b70a731a Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=459 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 20:09:58 -0500 Search for the definition of the word “contradiction” on Google and it is defined as “a combination of statements, ideas, or features of a situation that are opposed to one another.” I believe that contradictions […]

]]> f6386ccc745210448bbdc10ec84028f3 Diego Barcacel Pena commented on the post, A Poetic Problem, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/01/22/a-poetic-problem/#comment-3543 Mon, 09 Feb 2015 08:36:33 -0500 Rhyming definitely does not come naturally to me. I can’t even spell the word half of the time, I usually write it as “rhiming” even though I know it’s wrong. I don’t think that you should worry that your rhymes […]

]]> e5e5cbd0476d715683a9bb85c3127916 Diego Barcacel Pena joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4133/ Mon, 09 Feb 2015 08:26:46 -0500 0 dc6691c474c1d58e71e191e7a91d651e Diego Barcacel Pena changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4132/ Mon, 09 Feb 2015 08:25:44 -0500 0