English @ SUNY Geneseo | Lizzie Pellegrino | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/emp16/activity/ Activity feed for Lizzie Pellegrino. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 3d3a3d2feb1edd6a231f346a92d35c9a Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: Places & People in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7641/ Thu, 24 Nov 2016 00:39:36 -0500 The book of poetry that I’ve been following has is an anthology of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poems on San Francisco. Many of his poems are based in a specific place, but focus on the people/ a specific person in tha […]

]]> 0 373d100f16809d386264bddcbd813886 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post Response to "Poetry and Science" Pt. 2- The Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7408/ Wed, 12 Oct 2016 21:00:06 -0500 “Clearly a divide separates the disciplines of science and poetry.  In many respects we cannot enter one another’s territory.  The divide is as real as a rift separating tectonic plates or a border separating n […]

]]> 0 1bf63770f587e7af48105b3d928f04b6 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post Response to "Poetry and Science"- Language Use as a Divider of Disciplines in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7365/ Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:53:47 -0500 I found an article the other day, while looking for a quote on crafting CNF, titled “Poetry and Science: a view from the divide.” Being the person that I am, I’ve been playing with and reading this article for a […]

]]> 0 95d3fe580363beb759c24da09375f0a1 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post The Art Assignment in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7323/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:51:41 -0500 Given that we talked about ekphrasis last week, I wanted to suggest this youtube channel, “The Art Assignment,” to everyone on this blog. “The Art Assignment” is a youtube channel founded by PBS and hosted by con […]

]]> 0 94b5349be949a5df9d994a00109052df Lizzie Pellegrino 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-8329 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:32:16 -0500 Hi Pam!
Inspiration is a funny thing. On one hand, I feel like I find it everywhere. I find it in my geology professors, and how they word things in specific ways without acknowledging the beauty in their word […]

]]> d1be81ab65c17c92177a11a4313b2f40 Lizzie Pellegrino edited the blog post Verb Repository in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7174/ Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:37:07 -0500  

This past week I’ve been thinking about two things, both related to words. The first is Pound’s defense of small words in poetry, and his argument that simple language can be effective language when handled correctly. The second thing was Richardson’s stance on using strong verbs, something I don’t think often enough about in my writing…[Read more]

]]> 0 f22fe668948d4dcd1b1f8d6e774da40b Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post “[20th centaury poetry] will be as much like granite as it can be.” in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6833/ Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:30:44 -0500 Pound talks about rocks, but I’m not sure if he would have liked geology. Geology is not an instantaneous science, and if he tried to describe a rock outcrop by only using “[his] intellectual and emotional com […]

]]> 0 4e8e5e5734f57af634127528f71846ce Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post Plot, enclosure, fishpond in the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6755/ Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:13:48 -0500 Five minutes into writing for this prompt, and I’m thinking about fish tanks instead of place. So let’s talk about fish tanks. Wikipedia, the origin for most of my CNF inspiration, prefers to call fish tanks aqu […]

]]> 0 7f6eda752255af6c27366d0aa39fac0e Lizzie Pellegrino joined the group Sojournal https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6723/ Tue, 28 Jun 2016 00:58:14 -0500 0 8f8dc68da41b5aae276bcddeb1eebf11 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=827 Thu, 10 Dec 2015 14:12:54 -0500 Near the beginning of the semester, we were asked what drew us to picking or liking a certain poem. I think what draws us to poetry says more about our poetry than the poem we picked. I’ve noticed over the s […]

]]> 4c3c7cb7d182475ab4ea3120f32977de Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=798 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 18:22:58 -0500 Inspired by Carrie’s line “cloudy snapshot,” I came up with a short little prompt that comes in two parts.

The First Part: Write a snapshot moment.
The goal is to capture a very minuscule moment, freeze […]

]]> 0b4efdbf699b6dd95e828fa386687781 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=718 Wed, 21 Oct 2015 02:31:11 -0500 I thought it would be interesting to look more into language and linguistics in this blog post, since the last poem I wrote played around with those sorts of things. (But mostly because I’m a geek for l […]

]]> d1ac78358f1eb80f1fd4fa6fbf961ffd Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=675 Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:07:36 -0500 When John Gallaher was here, I noticed that he was writing sentences (or line or observations, who knows?) in a notebook throughout the class. At the end of class, I asked him “Why do you use a small notebook?” He […]

]]> 7553f0ca2484a54dea1b91fa7cc3e4e2 Lizzie Pellegrino commented on the post, What are we allowed to write?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/15/what-are-we-allowed-to-write/#comment-6090 Wed, 16 Sep 2015 16:09:15 -0500 You have a really good point. When writing characters who are diverse, it would be writing a “white story” to not include any affects of racism. So maybe it would be fair to show a character (like Mark) […]

]]> dafc92ca23daf2b363caaba67cb39f3c Lizzie Pellegrino commented on the post, The Depth of Words, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/01/the-depth-of-words/#comment-6078 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:27:07 -0500 I loved your reading of the first line Maya. Silence is one of those feelings that is all-consuming thing, and it can be comfortable or uncomfortable. A really has to have a command over language to describe […]

]]> 5e52761e742d82d978a7e124b4303c5a Lizzie Pellegrino commented on the post, Where Does Your Poetry Come From?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/09/13/where-does-your-poetry-come-from/#comment-6077 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 17:11:29 -0500 Hi Meghan!
I really enjoyed reading your post!

I think that inspiration comes from pretty much everywhere, but I think it comes mainly from obsession. I’ve been interested in combining math and science in […]

]]> ccaa1fb2020334d45ae42e24c6602c6f Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=643 Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:07:53 -0500 I’ve been really interested in the discussions we’ve been having lately about what we do and don’t have permission to write about. It’s a question that I’ve read about a fair amount on various websites and […]

]]> 1340167c7cde08678a76922c5d997f65 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=603 Tue, 01 Sep 2015 18:20:55 -0500 From the Fishouse is divided into ten different section which range from eulogies to poems that focus on wordplay. I was drawn in by the section titled “Spangling the Sea: Poems with Convincing Consonance and […]

]]> f6bcca45979fd89ccbe8d73f45e4f370 Lizzie Pellegrino joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5088/ Tue, 01 Sep 2015 17:54:26 -0500 0 75e5c636ed9e14bb6f47bbe5ebd50d8f Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=565 Wed, 06 May 2015 19:12:00 -0500 Fiction and Creative Nonfiction are similar in a lot of ways. They both use literary devices to characterize characters, show a setting, and prompt the reader to think more deeply about the text. They both use […]

]]> 7bed03a664488197a8c4afed8caa2783 Lizzie Pellegrino commented on the post, New Journalism and New Historicism, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/04/16/new-journalism-helping-new-historicism/#comment-47 Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:58:13 -0500 I completely agree that we often approach a study of history through literary texts. Speeches, letters, and diaries hold places of great importance in the study of history, because they provide unique perspectives […]

]]> 9df7cb30850e860544a84712655b874b Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=509 Tue, 14 Apr 2015 14:00:49 -0500 It seems like there are fine lines everywhere when it comes to categorizing different types of art, because I would call Fun Home a work of literature. However, I wouldn’t call the Garfield comics literature. I’m […]

]]> 534ac66816c80ba4b07bf84da4f1b177 Lizzie Pellegrino commented on the post, Subversive Studies, on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/03/25/subversive-studies/#comment-45 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:31:19 -0500 I find the idea of performance, in this context, to be incredibly interesting. Part of that is probably because we get the chance to read people as texts. The performance as a “straight person” or as a “gay […]

]]> 220ec13836c3ca5dc846041b34373198 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=443 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:14:56 -0500 ThumbnailIn his notes, John D’Agata reveals he conflates time and uses composite characters throughout About a Mountain. How does this deviation from the truth affect the way you view D’Agata’s story (is it a deviation)? […]

]]> d7c4322a8e8d4b52ad6d4e7b578fe974 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site Reader and Text http://readerandtext.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=722 Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:57:49 -0500 Bourdieu argues that cultural consumption is due to “our need to place ourselves within social hierarchies” (Moran, 72), and that this same need is transferred to how we read texts. In a previous course I learned […]

]]> d8568fb4473ceba49525b482c6b945c5 Lizzie Pellegrino joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4509/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 01:50:13 -0500 0 5183d9b4c7ff73b4528fc6b4fd4087dd Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=380 Mon, 09 Mar 2015 20:00:39 -0500 The human genome is about 50% identical the genome of a banana. I’ve been told this fact since before I knew what a genome actually was, and I always thought “How could that be? Humans are not like bananas at […]

]]> 3e684411df01637ec166a9d15ef1efd2 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=290 Sun, 22 Feb 2015 19:08:17 -0500 Thumbnail 

I hate titles. I mean, they’re useful, but I still hate them. I hate the title “Sherman’s March.” I think that it’s misleading, because the march is not the center point of the movie. It feels unoriginal, […]

]]> 4550a4f7bb3fcad69e188c51835786a3 Lizzie Pellegrino commented on the post, Selling Runaways to the Saturday Evening Post, on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/01/119/#comment-144 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:20:29 -0500 I really liked the line “Didion approaches her writing as an opportunity to show the insanity of the world she lives in” in your opening paragraph. It’s a good interpretation of Didion, who seems to be more […]

]]> 466fee7a5e0970e4fcab4304b5383b8a Lizzie Pellegrino commented on the post, Subjectivity v. Objectivity (2015), on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2015/02/15/subjectivity-v-objectivity-2015/#comment-132 Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:10:56 -0500 I really like the description of objectivity and subjectivity as a hockey fight. That was very easy to comprehend, and it fit the struggle between those two aspects of reading and writing. It seems like a lot of […]

]]> a5468d84de092af9e5a00c0f04f7e710 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=238 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:12:27 -0500 As a fan of Welcome to Night Vale, a bi-monthly fictional radio show that focuses on the town of Night Vale through the eyes (and voice) of Cecil Palmer, I’m hardly new to listening to podcasts. There’s something […]

]]> 7cac8071d6e12eb40cbe53dcc22d60b3 Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site Fact vs. Nonfiction http://nonfiction.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=126 Mon, 02 Feb 2015 03:26:30 -0500 The most important aspect of creative nonfiction is truth, which is closely followed by honesty. Without these two requirements, nonfiction would cease being nonfiction and become fiction instead. The difficult […]

]]> f20d5ca891905c905fcc053ad8e5ec56 Lizzie Pellegrino joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/4093/ Sun, 01 Feb 2015 21:52:44 -0500 0 8f7eecb14863d4d819c85a8bad6fa7fd Lizzie Pellegrino became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3266/ Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:25:59 -0500 0