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Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post i’m thinking out loud in this one (sorry) in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post someone had to ask the question in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post paying homage in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Francesca Barlowe edited the blog post i didn’t pass on the torch in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 months ago

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]
Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post old world and new world; a history lesson in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post twitter and texting linguistics in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
Francesca Barlowe wrote a new blog post poems and song writing in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 months ago

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 […]
Francesca Barlowe edited the blog post on abstraction in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 months ago

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]
Francesca Barlowe edited the blog post The Relevance of Lyric Journalism in the group Fact vs. Nonfiction: 9 years, 5 months ago

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]

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