English @ SUNY Geneseo | Emily Ramirez | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/emilydcramirez/activity/ Activity feed for Emily Ramirez. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 f696a5b4b746a38914198e4e7f0cbb88 Emily Ramirez edited the blog post We Are Dazzled, Not Destroyed in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7665/ Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:24:33 -0500 To begin this post, I want to draw attention to Frank’s post “Just Make It Go Away,” which highlights the way that Morrison and Dante both use blindness as a way to describe some of their major characters. The article that Frank brings into his post, “On the Hideous Whiteness of Brexit,” points specifically to the distorting lens that having wh…[Read more]

]]> 0 9021929c1cbd4bd2692206fb505c5fef Emily Ramirez edited the blog post On Feeling in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7697/ Sun, 11 Dec 2016 22:33:23 -0500 I first want to talk about what Audre Lorde might think of an image and want to relate it back to Ezra Pound’s idea of an image as an emotional complex. In the essay, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury*,” Lorde follows this thread by stating that “it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are – until the poem – nameless and formless, about…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b4f16ea147c2b64b7a71fbcff79fc85 Emily Ramirez commented on the post, Morrison and Unlearning Women's Bodies, on the site (Im)Possibilities http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/12/07/morrison-and-unlearning-womens-bodies/#comment-47 Wed, 07 Dec 2016 21:01:18 -0500 Thank you so much for referencing my thought that Morrison’s literature works as a means of getting us to assess our biases. I find that this thread is important especially now. I also want to thank you because […]

]]> f09754dc7300071f363a31b8d55fc6cf Emily Ramirez edited the blog post Jericho Brown Talks Paradise/Paradiso in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7683/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 20:19:51 -0500 I honestly don’t know what it is, but I keep finding connections between the stuff that we talk about in class and the things that I’m reading on the side. To be more specific, I’m currently reading a book of poetry called The New Testament by Jericho Brown, a well-known contemporary poet who talks about race.

The book is a journey of one…[Read more]

]]> 0 40bdf8c303906390f1ef1e495eb7cc10 Emily Ramirez edited the blog post Ta-Nehisi Coates on Reparations in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7679/ Mon, 05 Dec 2016 15:27:39 -0500 I just read “The Case for Reparations” by Ta-Nehisi Coates… it’s such a well-written, informative piece about what our next steps should be as Americans. It goes deep into our history and highlights specific examples of how we have neglected rights that our Constitution grants. The reading isn’t tough. It moves back and forth through time often,…[Read more]

]]> 0 785a56abad85469b0021a812a6f3c060 Emily Ramirez wrote a new blog post Images That Blew Me Away in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7675/ Sun, 04 Dec 2016 21:05:48 -0500 So I recently read F(X), a poem by Annalise Lozier, published in The Kenyon Review, which works to create images so fluidly that I was moved. Lines like “I have a sore spot / on each side of my head where our […]

]]> 0 66fdcde2dfcc695bca33a42c0d927c43 Emily Ramirez edited the blog post Writing Exercise: A News Article to Structure a Poem in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7670/ Sat, 03 Dec 2016 17:19:09 -0500 So since my most recent blog post about narrative poetry, I thought about the different kinds of narratives that we each day. Now I know that many of us read and indulge stories all around us, but I want to call attention to some recent stories that have been percolating our nation’s media. There’s so much going on around us. We’re all sensitive…[Read more]

]]> 0 54f160ebb33efc4b6f00cd20ec2f0e94 Emily Ramirez wrote a new blog post A Poem Kallie Showed Me in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7667/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:28:22 -0500 A thank you to Kallie for introducing me to the light, pillowy poetry that Mary Oliver makes room for in our chaotic world. I read it about three times a day, at least. It gives me a minute to breath and realize […]

]]> 0 6b7ec60ea39fffe2c5b42d5214c62715 Emily Ramirez edited the blog post The Narrative Poem in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7666/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 14:23:54 -0500 Recently, I’ve been questioning my role as a writer. The work that I thrive doing, what I define as prose, usually consists of me telling a story or deliberating on an argument. I wondered how the form that I love so much could translate into poetry, or rather, writing that pays much more attention to sound and shape on the page. Since narratives…[Read more]

]]> 0 9694c7acc61c9b33a30cf10b94929d82 Emily Ramirez edited the blog post My pen got velocity in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7657/ Fri, 02 Dec 2016 06:00:54 -0500 After listening to A Tribe Called Quest’s most recent album, We The People, I began thinking of my role as a poet in today’s world. It’s not the first time I thought about the position we all have as artists — where do we fit? — but I have placed myself within the binaries of what I’m allowed.

I feel that my little planet is pronounced by…[Read more]

]]> 0 40804cba32fe2c205dfc62a612c4ff3d Emily Ramirez commented on the post, Women, Men, and the Kitchen in Morrison's Paradise., on the site (Im)Possibilities http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/12/02/women-men-and-the-kitchen-in-morrisons-paradise/#comment-45 Fri, 02 Dec 2016 04:57:53 -0500 God, Sarah! May I say that I believe this post resonates so much with the thoughts that I’ve been having about Morrison and Dante. Although I don’t completely understand the kitchen analogy you’re drawing between […]

]]> 541b9827147d37f416648c97e3e33ced Emily Ramirez edited the blog post Drawing Parallels through Oral Histories in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7637/ Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:57:09 -0500 I found the fact that Morrison includes Patricia as a kind of oral historian in Paradise to be jarring considering the fact that I worked at a museum which created a project that recorded the histories of people who are of mixed descent. I wanted to do some work addressing the parallels between Patricia and the work that Brooklyn Historical…[Read more]

]]> 0 00daf781fb56520bb53a45172f209018 Emily Ramirez wrote a new blog post Forward then backward in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7638/ Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:25:07 -0500 Please take the time to read this essay, “Making America White Again,” by the author of our class’s readings, Toni Morrison. She talks about a push and pull: the whitening of America. The topic she discusses makes […]

]]> 0 42636bed90f2be84e05704cc27f2f24b Emily Ramirez wrote a new blog post We live in a democracy in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7598/ Wed, 09 Nov 2016 14:47:08 -0500 I woke up today disoriented, unable to think clearly about our country’s future. Yesterday, Donald J. Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States. America has spoken. Although this means that many o […]

]]> 0 ba1e1561f487201191e55c562687d7fd Emily Ramirez wrote a new blog post On the discourse of punishment... in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7475/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:46:21 -0500 Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer and activist that fights for what goes unnoticed in our justice system. But alongside this, Stevenson works to reteach American history… Stevenson forces his audience to remember the […]

]]> 0 e8c58aa586fb662e03f670fcce4ca167 Emily Ramirez wrote a new blog post Forming Melodies With Words in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7465/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 23:19:52 -0500 A couple weeks ago, I asked Lytton about how to concisely produce sound in poetry and his advice garnered an intimate approximation to the words that you choose and how they relate to one another in a line. He […]

]]> 0 5294cac4ad6120be7ac7ea96ffea1702 Emily Ramirez edited the blog post How to Feel About Prisons in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7393/ Thu, 13 Oct 2016 22:40:09 -0500 I wanted to start a conversation about prisons in the United States. But first, I’d like to start with a little anecdote. A couple years ago my older brother used to hang around the wrong group of people. We live in the hood in Brooklyn and so part of this meant dealing with the culture of the hood. One day, my brother was hanging out with these…[Read more]

]]> 0 6e4ee2bf948f195b311e1fd90635bb5e Emily Ramirez commented on the post, Verb Repository, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/13/verb-repository/#comment-8327 Sat, 24 Sep 2016 19:39:01 -0500 Google. It’s a verb, a noun, an adjective (if you so please.) In reading this post, my mind starting thinking about all the possible verbs that are out there and then it landed on Google. Google could be a good […]

]]> 5d60dce3aff9162363e388e742edc8cf Emily Ramirez commented on the post, Transcending and learning patience, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/22/transcending-and-learning-patience/#comment-8326 Sat, 24 Sep 2016 19:34:38 -0500 God, this post is so relevant on so many different levels. First, I can’t believe this was the precursor to the conversation we had on poetry yesterday. For those of you reading, I was asking Carolina for help on […]

]]> da09772a3697852f925ae33cdb2a36ed Emily Ramirez commented on the post, Where Do You Get Your Inspiration From?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/19/where-do-you-get-your-inspiration-from/#comment-8325 Sat, 24 Sep 2016 19:25:13 -0500 Hey, Pam — I realized I never responded to your question. I want to help, so I’ll frame where I get my inspiration from in a way that’ll help you generate poetry in similar ways.

I want to say that I get my […]

]]> e3003f7e97cbcc0d480c208f2a0b5f54 Emily Ramirez commented on the post, Biopolitics and the Neoliberal Subject: an introduction, on the site (Im)Possibilities http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/09/19/biopolitics-and-the-neoliberal-subject-an-introduction/#comment-16 Thu, 22 Sep 2016 02:42:09 -0500 Hi John,

Upon reading the first sentence of your thesis statement and being, honestly, super confused by it, I was intrigued. I continued on and learned about all these concepts that I had heard discussed […]

]]> 1a45c92153d4f2c94c6766e1f458e77f Emily Ramirez edited the blog post Black History is American History in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7125/ Sat, 17 Sep 2016 00:08:38 -0500 A question that Beth posed in class this week asked us to understand what Toni Morrison means when she stated that her literature is intended for black folks. In this blog post, I’d like to dive into what I believe that she meant, with a special mention to a quote from the PBS film, Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery, that sta…[Read more]

]]> 0 9095109628cf50f78b237d2888f27eab Emily Ramirez joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7124/ Sun, 11 Sep 2016 19:10:32 -0500 0 190140a0085f2c8af76d1fd144be67d2 Emily Ramirez edited the blog post What kind of music do you make? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7044/ Wed, 07 Sep 2016 13:00:06 -0500 The reading for today’s class, Rachel Richardson’s “Learning Image and Description,” sparked a newfound interest in sound for me. I have always noticed that in order to make a poem resonate well with its audience, the sound and momentum of the words must be in sync with its message. This is something that I’ve always been in awe of when hearing…[Read more]

]]> 0 80ce65beb4445ca90b34a9858615505f Emily Ramirez joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7042/ Tue, 06 Sep 2016 02:24:55 -0500 0 dd83f71dd843a4b659d5c7710192afbf Emily Ramirez wrote a new blog post Deviating from the Flowery & Honing Sounds in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6842/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 17:05:15 -0500 After reading Ezra Pound’s essay, ‘”A Retrospect” and “A Few Don’ts,”‘ on poetic theory, I’m compelled and frightened by whatever poetry has to offer me, specifically in terms of getting to the point. As a writer […]

]]> 0 b5cc211f5ee2ad3b9fbfebcbc4d54e79 Emily Ramirez joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6837/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 16:47:04 -0500 0 af732d3106fd683825a4aa09fda6a05c Emily Ramirez wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=568 Thu, 07 May 2015 00:25:22 -0500 A problem I have encountered in my creative nonfiction is how to dialogue my personal history as it relates to the histories of my countries as a Dominican American. Essayists write the intersection of these […]

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