English @ SUNY Geneseo | DongWon Oh | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/dongwonoh/activity/ Activity feed for DongWon Oh. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 09687aa5d93c9282c0700b88ca2a762c DongWon Oh wrote a new blog post Dante & Morrison's Reminders about Control, Communication & Kindness Amidst the Pandemic in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15196/ Sun, 10 May 2020 18:11:52 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 0099cf625298dcddda719d6c7396cd48 DongWon Oh joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15193/ Sun, 10 May 2020 17:54:50 -0500 0 e0bd10e836c8eca396a085ed7327c8fa DongWon Oh wrote a new blog post Walt Whitman on contradiction; in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6470/ Tue, 10 May 2016 15:43:52 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 b50281418fa23678367aa3c7907a2af2 DongWon Oh wrote a new blog post Writers write what they know; in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6468/ Tue, 10 May 2016 13:20:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 e121d1fb98fa98eddbc082d7857350d9 DongWon Oh edited the blog post Blog Post: Architecture of a stanza as a wave in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6464/ Tue, 10 May 2016 03:08:16 -0500 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]

]]> 0 d5c901afa641083b12128d4669f0868c DongWon Oh wrote a new blog post Poetry for an audience in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6236/ Tue, 15 Mar 2016 21:15:14 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 39061ce39c4f0b92050fec6c58545fd8 DongWon Oh wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=979 Sun, 21 Feb 2016 00:43:43 -0500 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 […]

]]> eb6c0bc64e62a7a9be8dca45ce7397be DongWon Oh wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=941 Wed, 10 Feb 2016 20:34:51 -0500 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 […]

]]> bd56a96feddfad9644f88fbac34cb5cb DongWon Oh wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=857 Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:52:56 -0500 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 […]

]]> dead5f8e31f6e43955ffaeba5bba1f79 DongWon Oh joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5759/ Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:10:23 -0500 0 936d9ba79351dea8924716bcbdfaedab DongWon Oh wrote a new post on the site The Geneseo Almanacs http://almanacs.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=71 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:22:02 -0500  

 

8:08 pm, August 22nd, 2015
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           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 […]

]]> 1f88e36b9fac9b266d135c9b526daaa9 DongWon Oh joined the group Geneseo Almanacs https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5647/ Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:03:49 -0500 0 ad62c436b98888d14b05ad52f70bea21 DongWon Oh became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5459/ Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:03:44 -0500 0