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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: 9 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 […]
Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post D!$$ in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post Poetry Freestyle/Off the dome/ in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
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: 9 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 […]
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: 9 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new blog post Para Cenar Habrá Nostalgia de Fior E. Plasencia in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 6 months ago

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 […]
Diego Barcacel Pena edited the blog post Sources I turn to… in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 7 months ago

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]
Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 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 […]
Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 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 […]
Diego Barcacel Pena wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 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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