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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post A Final Reflection…. in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 4 months ago
Today when I was going over my final draft of my portfolio it made me realize that a lot of the poems that I expected to write for the class felt in a way completed. I’ve never really had this sense in poetry b […]
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Danielle Gonzalez's profile was updated 5 years, 4 months ago
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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post Reflection on the Kindergarten Teacher and Why Poets Write in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months ago
****Warning! This post contains spoilers for the Kindergarten Teacher!!!!!*******
A couple of weeks ago my friends and I watched the Kindergarten Teacher because we heard it was about poetry and were […]
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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post Poetry and Context in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
After reading poems that mentioned Cy Twombly and Giorgio Amgabam in relation to each other, for this week’s tangible object, I decided to research Cy Twombly and Giorgio Amgabam to look into how they relate to D […]
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Danielle Gonzalez edited the blog post A Reflection on Fall Break in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
Fall Break will be over soon and on Wednesday, most if not all of us will be asked what we did during our time off. While many of us would like to say that we got a jump start on that paper that’s due, or finally […]
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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post Review on Inside Out and Back Again in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months ago
Inside out and Back Again is a beautifully written narrative of immigration. Thanhha Lai does not show concern about traditional word count but rather the presentation of the story in which her words can be framed […]
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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post On creating Texture in Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months ago
In one of our classes, Lytton discussed how poetry should create resistance through a poem’s lines. This idea really intrigued me. Party, because my ideas for writing often comes without much friction, and I don’t […]
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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post On Finding a Distinct Writing Style in the group The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months ago
When Professor Lytton discussed out first class workshop, I found it really interesting that we were submitting our work anonymously. Although the point of this was to focus on the poem and not the writer, I […]
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Danielle Gonzalez commented on the post, taking steps toward my writing career. finally., on the groupblog The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 7 months ago
Congratulations Julia! That’s amazing!!!!! I’m happy to see you furthering yourself as a writer and taking the opportunity to send out your work. You’ve made a very good point about the submitting process. I […]
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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post Tiredness and Writing in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years ago
***This post does not contain spoilers for the movie Coraline but watch it anyways!This past weekend I made the mistake of watching Coraline while being tired verging on sleep drunkenness (being so tired you start […]
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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post On Fonts in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years ago
One of the things I love most about poetry is the amount of detail that goes into the process, and that every aspect of the presentation, down to the font style can be used in some way. In our poetry class, I like […]
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Danielle Gonzalez commented on the post, building bridges instead of walls, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 1 month ago
I can relate! I always cringe at the nonfictional aspects of my poetry and I find myself hesitant about writing about my personal life. I think it’s really hard to be vulnerable, both that we must physically write […]
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Danielle Gonzalez edited the blog post Grammar and Me in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 1 month ago
Throughout my life, I’ve noticed that my friends are often very surprised when they first meet my dad and hear his very thick Colombian accent and realize that this man is my father. My dad came to this country when he was 25 and had to learn English from scratch. While my dad did learn the language he was never concerned with perfecting it, he w…[Read more]
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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post Fiction and Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 2 months ago
As a person who now writes fiction sometimes I am hesitant into where it falls in regard to poetry. I remember once writing a poem that was in the early stages of editing. One of the things that drew me to edit […]
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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new blog post My Snapshot Mentality in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 2 months ago
When I first started to write poetry, I pictured it as capturing a flash in a moment, one snapshot. Not to say this is never the case, but I’m learning that if you want to show your readers a log cabin, how you l […]
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Danielle Gonzalez joined the group The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 2 months ago
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Danielle Gonzalez wrote a new post on the site The Geneseo Almanacs 8 years, 4 months ago
I stand still in the too-quiet courtyard, about to be calm, to lose myself in nature, when my eyes travel to the trees. Something is off. They seem lost, in a land that’s not theirs. For all we know t […]
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Danielle Gonzalez joined the group Geneseo Almanacs 8 years, 4 months ago
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Jess Fenn and Danielle Gonzalez are now friends 8 years, 7 months ago
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Danielle Gonzalez became a registered member 8 years, 7 months ago