Profile | Madeline Yousey | English @ SUNY Geneseo

Recent Blog Posts

Madeline Yousey wrote a new blog post “The Economy of the Line” by Rachel Zucker in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 9 months ago

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 wrote a new blog post “Captivated Syllabics” by Robyn Schiff in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 months ago

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 wrote a new blog post “White Days” by Priscilla Becker in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 months ago

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 wrote a new blog post Characters in Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 months ago

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 wrote a new blog post Comparing Poetry and Music in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 months ago

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 wrote a new blog post English 301: Reading by Albert Rios in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 12 months ago

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 […]

More Blogs

Name	Madeline Yousey
First Name	Madeline
Last Name	Yousey

Madeline Yousey

Base