English @ SUNY Geneseo | Francesca Barlowe | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/francescab/activity/ Activity feed for Francesca Barlowe. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4bb248cc24eee20ef29079a4b460e13c Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post i'm thinking out loud in this one (sorry) in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9116/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:35:08 -0500 Okay, I’ve done some extensive self-reflection, and I think the biggest problem I had with choosing a poem on Monday was that I was trying to veer away from a common “theme” or “technique” that I believe I’m known […]

]]> 0 e018e53d763d136fda5f8ff7fcfeecb9 Francesca Barlowe commented on the post, Writing while doing things, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/28/writing-while-doing-things/#comment-10859 Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:44:57 -0500 I really like the idea of this! I think it can help you if you feel like your poems are “depressing”. Doing the constant process of note taking while you’re in the moment of something you enjoy is something I […]

]]> c089d8a23b5ecf7be7bffb1752818a34 Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post someone had to ask the question in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9088/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 04:03:21 -0500 It took me closer to 2 hours to pick my poem to distribute today. I had a plethora of poems to choose from. I had poems that had long and short lines, and even one that took up a whole page, including all of the […]

]]> 0 dc0d58e39a9f5f667091e8683a5d617e Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post paying homage in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9001/ Sat, 11 Nov 2017 18:31:51 -0500 I’d like to talk about the purpose of an epigraph. I had to look up what an epigraph was before I wrote this because I didn’t want to make a fool of myself. I do know, however, that it came up in class the other […]

]]> 0 4423f8836ee6c04563c4a425bc50375a Francesca Barlowe commented on the post, I think you all should know that I’ve been plundering your poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/07/i-think-you-all-should-know-that-ive-been-plundering-your-poems/#comment-10763 Sat, 11 Nov 2017 17:19:42 -0500 I like this idea, and I don’t feel as if this is an attack on privacy at all. I actually LOL’ed in the middle of Starbucks when I read this. I also think that sometimes we have to borrow things from others, and if […]

]]> 0d1ad4dd421e4c8376bf54ee6ce0f59d Francesca Barlowe commented on the post, line break (up), on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/05/line-break-up/#comment-10741 Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:49:26 -0500 Just think of it like a photograph in black and white. Now think of this photo if it were to have been developed in negatives. What was illuminated when you switched the focal colors? What became black and what […]

]]> bd7eaef20174c44cec5bc76b91ddefb9 Francesca Barlowe commented on the post, On writing reviews, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/05/on-writing-reviews/#comment-10740 Tue, 07 Nov 2017 17:42:06 -0500 I think you have a good point! I think that it’s wise to recognize your position in the world, but I also think that that’s a way to add to the conversation. The books given to us were chosen because they were […]

]]> 2b0d9254bd761e73dc5303f8f165c01c Francesca Barlowe edited the blog post i didn't pass on the torch in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8882/ Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:06:11 -0500 I took what was said in my last workshop to heart, and I really tried to stop using all of my fire musings. Gone were the analogies of fire, including but not limited to: “crackling like teak wood in a blaze”,  “engulfing infernos” and “bubbling blisters”. I even tried to stop using words that even equated to temperature, and instead used words…[Read more]

]]> 0 0fbff8acc4a2fd4bd1e0b6a4d067a2a8 Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post old world and new world; a history lesson in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8815/ Fri, 13 Oct 2017 03:03:51 -0500 Over break, I made a point to grab some of the many books I’ve bought at Barnes and Noble over the years. I wanted to directly compare what we’ve been learning in class about “the line” with what had sparked my […]

]]> 0 734f1a590c4b9710db84d86abd08c8cb Francesca Barlowe commented on the post, (W)Right Side of the Page, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/27/wright-side-of-the-page/#comment-10537 Mon, 02 Oct 2017 04:22:28 -0500 I think it’s really interesting how you highlighted the power of a “right side” poem, and how it forces the reader to become immersed in it in a way. I think it highlights the decision that we all make when […]

]]> ab44856d25af01fde8d29fb757584e3d Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post twitter and texting linguistics in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8738/ Mon, 02 Oct 2017 04:08:38 -0500 So, we all know that twitter is notorious for having a character limit of 140 characters, which isn’t much at all. But, with the talks of doubling the character limit, what does that do to the line?

The […]

]]> 0 968da213c71f2d18225208e34218aff8 Francesca Barlowe commented on the post, calling all right brains !, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/26/calling-all-right-brains/#comment-10524 Thu, 28 Sep 2017 03:17:57 -0500 Hey Grace! I wrote about something similar in my blog post with regards to songwriting. I always try to feel for the symmetry in a line, based on what the subject is and the feeling behind the poem I think you’re […]

]]> 16a1cbe5a00159b0a8e5b10af139f773 Francesca Barlowe commented on the post, Focus on Word Choice, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/20/focus-on-word-choice/#comment-10510 Tue, 26 Sep 2017 03:39:32 -0500 Wow Meg, this is such an interesting idea! It may seem like you’re doing something mundane and rudimentary, but I think this is allowing you to step back and look at yourself. This also sounds like a teaching […]

]]> 502ceecb19246bf8a321cda4d2eb9550 Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post poems and song writing in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8681/ Sun, 24 Sep 2017 23:54:10 -0500 I found it really interesting that John O. Espinoza writes about a new way to piece poetry together with scissors and scotch tape. I think that using multiple methods to create poetry is useful in that it creates […]

]]> 0 0293a5081e0ad26bde9878926bbdda42 Francesca Barlowe changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8655/ Tue, 19 Sep 2017 16:35:51 -0500 0 f2a9b52fbfcded60e7477d5b40cb48d5 Francesca Barlowe edited the blog post on abstraction in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8609/ Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:08:10 -0500 I hadn’t truly thought about the extent of how abstract poems can be before my workshop. To me, what happened in my poem was clear, but I was also the one experiencing it. Metaphorically, I tried taking my story and shattering it, only using a handful of shards to put it back together. In hindsight I don’t really know if that’s an effective way to…[Read more]

]]> 0 1d81ae423136a26189cfc05729687c6e Francesca Barlowe joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8590/ Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:29:13 -0500 0 7b92e8c10209316ae088694d24b2139f Francesca Barlowe changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8575/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 16:01:51 -0500 0 7b00ce4e9797e768baba94447770fab2 Francesca Barlowe joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8574/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 15:55:13 -0500 0 b4d64ccf04ac108747e6e23b00a5e708 Francesca Barlowe edited the blog post The Relevance of Lyric Journalism in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8092/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 21:40:02 -0500  

The difference between lyric journalism and journalism is a component that allows for lyric journalism to be contemplative about the “bigger picture” and come to some kind of conclusion about the components of life. For example, it’s the difference between saying that the Romanticism Movement was “was an artistic, literary, musical and…[Read more]

]]> 0 4251d5ca617a30fdadfa07bb895c9c17 Francesca Barlowe joined the group Fact vs. Nonfiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8075/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:45:25 -0500 0 444703f814968b3525f8672594b1395b Francesca Barlowe joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7072/ Wed, 07 Sep 2016 16:48:44 -0500 0 3728ae5a81f61f566e8bbea8a415b2f2 Francesca Barlowe became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6979/ Sat, 03 Sep 2016 20:51:40 -0500 0