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DongWon Oh wrote a new blog post Dante & Morrison’s Reminders about Control, Communication & Kindness Amidst the Pandemic in the group American Studies: 3 years, 10 months ago
Morrison’s Paradise seems more relevant than ever in the face of a global pandemic that emphasizes the need for collaboration, at personal, local, communal, interstate, and global levels. What’s fortunate for thi […]
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DongWon Oh joined the group American Studies 3 years, 10 months ago
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DongWon Oh wrote a new blog post Walt Whitman on contradiction; in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself”
I’ll admit, I don’t know the context of Whitman’s quote nor do I remember the specifics of Nate Pritts’ lecture that led to this quote, because it simply […]
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DongWon Oh wrote a new blog post Writers write what they know; in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
I found this semester that my best poems came from ideas or experiences rooted in the most emotions. As a third culture kid, I often found myself writing about being home, finding someplace to “rest my bones” (as […]
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DongWon Oh edited the blog post Blog Post: Architecture of a stanza as a wave in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
One of the first lessons in this workshop we had was that the stanza is a room, in the sense that it is both self-contained but also communicates with other parts of the poem. Thinking about this at the end of the workshop, it made more and more sense.
I think then I also thought of the stanza as being waves constantly crashing against the…[Read more]
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DongWon Oh wrote a new blog post Poetry for an audience in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years ago
Something I’ve struggled since the beginning of this workshop course is the audience I write for, more specifically one who doesn’t know my background. I find myself writing very specific and abstract poems about […]
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DongWon Oh wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
For my latest writing exercise on the pantoum / villanelle, I wrote a piece called “I’m sorry”, around the recent passing of my grandfather and how over the course of the last few days (since the 11th), certain […]
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DongWon Oh wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
Something that was said in class was that a stanza is always in movement, that it is like the coast of a sea, coming back to the same point with one constant message. I think we discussed on the 27th of January […]
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DongWon Oh wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
I think – or I like to think, that I am a visual and highly conceptual person. In this sense, form matters in my writing because it provides a way to block up and organize my ideas, whether it’s a progression of e […]
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DongWon Oh joined the group The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
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DongWon Oh wrote a new post on the site The Geneseo Almanacs 8 years, 3 months ago
8:08 pm, August 22nd, 2015
Thump thump thump
The thin soles of my Nike FlyKnits pounded out a steady rhythm across the first quarter of the track, my toes feeling the crunch of the all-wea […] -
DongWon Oh joined the group Geneseo Almanacs 8 years, 3 months ago
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Jess Fenn and DongWon Oh are now friends 8 years, 5 months ago
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DongWon Oh became a registered member 8 years, 5 months ago