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David Sabol wrote a new blog post Spitting our Painter’s Palette into the Smog in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
David Sabol wrote a new blog post Happy Thoughts!!! in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
David Sabol edited the blog post Quilting Poetry: A Response to Chloe’s Showcase in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 5 months ago

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]
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: 9 years, 5 months ago

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]
David Sabol wrote a new blog post Sparks in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 7 months ago

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 […]
David Sabol wrote a new post on the site The Geneseo Almanacs 10 years, 9 months ago

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 […]

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