English @ SUNY Geneseo | David Sabol | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/dts8/activity/ Activity feed for David Sabol. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 bf37ca7580e23511d6f52b7b4b8ab7a6 David Sabol wrote a new blog post Spitting our Painter's Palette into the Smog in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8250/ Wed, 19 Apr 2017 02:19:03 -0500 When Trump won the presidency so many people took to Facebook to bear witness to the end of democracy, the end of America, the end of the world as we know it.

Whether the world ended or not in November, we’re […]

]]> 0 c45634930d9ffde1f22fca3c5aad84bd David Sabol wrote a new blog post Happy Thoughts!!! in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8249/ Wed, 19 Apr 2017 01:42:44 -0500 Two weeks ago, Lytton tried to guide the class, through a prompt, towards writing something happy. Lytton mentioned that it seemed like the class tended to write a lot of sad, depressing,  tragic, etc. poetry. I […]

]]> 0 0d8b047628696dcea98d8af9cd5408ec David Sabol edited the blog post Quilting Poetry: A Response to Chloe's Showcase in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8174/ Thu, 06 Apr 2017 21:52:48 -0500  I’ve been meaning to write about Chloe’s quilt Showcase since we had it. I thought the analogy of a poem to quilt is a really interesting one.

It really made sense with what Lytton’s been teaching about source: that all writing comes from reading and is informed by source in some way. Similarly, quilts consist of patches of different “sou…[Read more]

]]> 0 21c5fd97577d28190f5db96b2747c7db David Sabol edited the blog post Steam of (ADHD) Consciousness: Taking cues from Diego's "Poetry Freestyle/Off the dome/" in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8175/ Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:32:32 -0500 I’ve been wanting to write a stream of consciousness for a long ass time and I think this kind of writing is super important. Trying to construct our thoughts into the structure and format that we want sometimes edits out the most dangerous, the most raw, the most true aspects of my writing and I suspect of other’s writing as well. Here…[Read more]

]]> 0 2970798e5bbf9a991b34f270e932a1b0 David Sabol commented on the post, Poetry Freestyle/Off the dome/, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/04/02/poetry-freestyleoff-the-dome/#comment-9506 Tue, 04 Apr 2017 18:30:36 -0500 your poetry is feces you cant meet me
cause I’m a metaphysical lyrical criminal
i bounce consonants with vigilance
i mince words like garlic and innocence

]]> 4fbb53647cdbf87660f1009fffb24d0c David Sabol 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-9128 Wed, 25 Jan 2017 20:40:58 -0500 Hey Steven!

I’ve been there man. I found writing to be the way to drop the weights I carried, every so often.

For inspiration, I’d suggest “I Wrote This For You” by Jon Ellis. It’s this beautiful mix of […]

]]> fcaa5e8a86e932274f6a7eb8c08c05ed David Sabol wrote a new blog post Sparks in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7754/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 05:52:16 -0500 child cowering, fetal, open field, hurricane     hair snagged on fishhooks tied to kite tails

I draw inspiration from my rather unique childhood experience. Grew up poor at first, mental illness haunts my fam […]

]]> 0 ac594a78ba7c03ebe854bb0430c1e2cd David Sabol joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7752/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 03:49:59 -0500 0 86fcf4277ba89c29b103959d36519832 David Sabol wrote a new post on the site The Geneseo Almanacs http://almanacs.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=96 Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:32:16 -0500  

 

I came to college with the quiet goal of separating myself, from the other people there, and from the violent vivacity that that permeates Long Island. It was easy to think that after driving four h […]

]]> 4c17d164be6c200c667290c8567cbf82 David Sabol joined the group Geneseo Almanacs https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5656/ Tue, 08 Dec 2015 16:09:41 -0500 0 a9d11d043ac1997479bce6824e54a52e David Sabol started the topic Invisible Verses and Drawings discovered in Medieval Welsh Text in the forum Medieval Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/medieval-studies/forum/topic/invisible-verses-and-drawings-discovered-in-medieval-welsh-text/ Mon, 20 Apr 2015 02:24:10 -0500 Faded, nearly invisible verses and drawings were recently discovered in the oldest medieval manuscript written entirely in Welsh. Written circa 1250, Cambridge professors recently examined “The Black Book of Carmarthen” under different light spectra and found many annotations via past readers. This is extremely exciting because we can see what …[Read more]

]]> d38f29776688b0e01961786def7869ef David Sabol joined the group Medieval Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4711/ Wed, 15 Apr 2015 06:13:17 -0500 0 0c1f6662a7d4561301d34fda393f2928 David Sabol became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4709/ Wed, 15 Apr 2015 06:11:41 -0500 0