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Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post Writing Exercise: Places & People in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post Response to “Poetry and Science” Pt. 2- The Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 11 months ago

“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 […]
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: 9 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post The Art Assignment in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
Lizzie Pellegrino edited the blog post Verb Repository in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 11 months ago

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]
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: 10 years ago

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 […]
Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new blog post Plot, enclosure, fishpond in the group Sojournal: 10 years, 2 months ago

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 […]
Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Lizzie Pellegrino wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 10 months ago

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 […]

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