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Madeline Yousey wrote a new blog post "The Economy of the Line" by Rachel Zucker in the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 29 Nov 2017 04:33:03 -0500

I was interested in the anecdote told in “The Economy of the Line” by Rachel Zucker in A Broken Thing. The author explains how they were willing to pay for a different trim size to preserve how they formatted and […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, What do we owe our writing prompts?, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 23:47:53 -0500

I also am a fan of prompts. What I really like about your post is how it shows all the different ways to interpret a simple prompt, like the one we wrote about that dealt with gravity and flight, that you […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, Wholesome Penguin RandomHouse, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 23:45:22 -0500

I took the quiz and got a comma! The description is, “It’s you. You thrive on the intricacies of life, culture, and travel. Commas seek to discover their surroundings and are constantly on the path of exploration. […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, paying homage, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 23:44:34 -0500

I also wasn’t sure about the purpose of an epigraph, but thought about it a little more when we discussed epigraphs in class. I think epigraphs can be used for many purposes in the poem, depending on the poem. I […]

Madeline Yousey wrote a new blog post "Captivated Syllabics" by Robyn Schiff in the group The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 08 Nov 2017 02:50:06 -0500

When reading “Captivated by Syllabics” by Robyn Schiff in A Broken Thing, I really thought about the role of syllables in poetry in a totally new way. Although I knew sometimes poets payed attention to the spe […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, FALL-ing for the Season, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:32:45 -0500

I like how you discuss how the weather can influence your mood, because I definitely feel like the weather influences my mood, too. As far as how I feel about fall, when the weather felt more like fall to me, I […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, There's a Poem in That, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:17:49 -0500

I think a poem about the tea kettle could be really interesting! I really like what you discuss about how even little things that seem boring making interesting poems. Even though a tea kettle seems like a boring […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, my old poems belong on MySpace (& other musings), on the site The Contemporary Poem

Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:04:31 -0500

I definitely relate to your thoughts. Just from the time between writing a poem and handing it in to workshop, I find that my opinions on them have changed already. And when I’ve read things I’ve written years ago […]

Madeline Yousey wrote a new blog post "White Days" by Priscilla Becker in the group The Contemporary Poem

Sun, 22 Oct 2017 01:30:52 -0500

The poem “White Days” by Priscilla Becker in the reader was fascinating to me. This is because while reading it, I found myself drawn to the sounds of the words, specifically the “s” sound. Reading through the […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, feels & rusty stop signs., on the site The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:40:53 -0500

Your post made me think about the book we’re discussing in class, Map and Atlas. I think the ideas you discussed relate to the book of poems overall. The poems have lots of small moments that seem insignificant, […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, Analysis in Music-Weird?, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:32:20 -0500

I also do this when listening to music, especially if it’s a song I’ve heard several times. The first time I listen to a song I probably don’t pay very much attention, but once I’ve heard it a few times I look up […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, To Cut or Not to Cut, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 17 Oct 2017 23:22:00 -0500

Interesting question! I think for me it depends on the context. Personally, I think I tend to just cut lines, and completely rewrite poems instead of keeping many lines. I completely agree, responding to feedback […]

Madeline Yousey wrote a new blog post Characters in Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem

Sun, 08 Oct 2017 16:37:17 -0500

I was really interested by the poem in the reader for last week’s class by Alena Hairston. It doesn’t have the format I expect from poetry. At first, I thought it was more like a prose poem. But as I read, I […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, Line as space, air, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:06:57 -0500

I really like how you relate the line to the poem, “Two Moths”. The line breaks didn’t feel suspenseful at all to me when reading the poem. Instead, the lines felt like they were drifting along, even when that […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, (W)Right Side of the Page, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 23:53:04 -0500

I found your thoughts on the line very interesting! I completely agree that it’s a completely different experience reading poems that start on the right margin or the left margin. I think the first thing I usually […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, twitter and texting linguistics, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 03 Oct 2017 23:21:13 -0500

I’ve never thought about twitter in that way before! I agree, the word count definitely means the writer has to be efficient and not use extra words. I think when I’ve written poetry, I always start out with a […]

Madeline Yousey wrote a new blog post Comparing Poetry and Music in the group The Contemporary Poem

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:15:57 -0500

One thing that interests me is the discussions of white space in poetry during class. For instance, we have read several poems and discussed the large amounts of space in between words, and what effect that […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, the option to linger, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:25:52 -0500

I think that is such an interesting way to think about the line. And in both Grace’s post and Marley’s reply, there are two great ways to look at the line discussed, as a moment in a picture frame or as a part of […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, on abstraction, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 03:13:24 -0500

I also have had the same dilemma when writing poems. I think when writing poems I want to explain everything and make sure nothing is too abstract. I’m worry that otherwise, the reader will be confused, and the […]

Madeline Yousey commented on the post, Poems Within Poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem

Tue, 19 Sep 2017 02:07:23 -0500

I completely understand with your ideas about editing and revision. I think a lot of times, I do the same thing when writing poems. I focus on the poem as a whole, and forget to look at lines individually. However […]

Madeline Yousey wrote a new blog post English 301: Reading by Albert Rios in the group The Contemporary Poem

Sun, 10 Sep 2017 03:25:41 -0500

I found section 8 in the reading for class by Albert Ríos discussing how the line is like furniture that makes up a room the most interesting. To me, that implied that one way to think about a line is as a […]

Madeline Yousey joined the group The Contemporary Poem

Fri, 08 Sep 2017 20:02:30 -0500

Madeline Yousey became a registered member

Thu, 07 Sep 2017 02:18:01 -0500