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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post i in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years ago
I get comments (concerns? questions?) very often about the choice to refrain from using capitals in my work. Lately, I’ve been attempting to analyze what it’s all about, knowing that I don’t typically like to do […]
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Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Keep Moving Forward, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years ago
hey Bri!
I’ve been given the advice to set a rejection goal: my goal is to be rejected 100 times in 2018 (preferably just by journals and not by potential love interests).
Why? The more you put yourself out […]
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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post i write because i’m selfish in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years ago
Here is a blog post I recently wrote for another class, thought I’d share here. Enjoy!
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“Poetry is always about my life. It’s a way to express how I feel,” sixteen-year-old Grace muses dramatically, holdi […] -
Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post the amputee’s guide to sex & other discoveries of disability in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 1 month ago
Hello, friends!
I’ve been reading books lately by poets with disabilities, specifically by poets who write about the human body and the human brain and why “norms” shouldn’t exist in such intricate and […] -
Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Truth About My Pieces & The Addiction Within Them, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 2 months ago
julia~~~
you are incredibly brave for sharing something so close to home, and for that, i commend you!
after my first poetry workshop ever, i ran to the bathroom and cried wet, heavy tears. it was an […]
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Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Mixing Spacing Up, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 2 months ago
white
space
isthe shit.
honestly, if we take pauses within our normal conversations, and poetry is as fluid as breath, as speech, as […]
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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post book swap ? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 2 months ago
This isn’t exactly a blog post, but more of a solicitation:
Would anyone be interested in a poetry book swap? I have a multitude of contemporary and modern poetry books that have literally (yes, literally) […]
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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post in which a silent room of slim shady’s wait for the real one to stand up first in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 2 months ago
“Okay, thank you. Goodbye,” I said nervously upon hanging up the phone after speaking with a professor I know. Satisfied with my pseudo-professionalism, I looked over at my friend and realized she was silently […]
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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post indeed the tulips change tense too quickly in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 3 months ago
“Indeed the tulips change tense too quickly. They open and fly off. And, holding absolutes at bay, the buds tear through the fruit trees, steeples into sky,” -Jorie Graham’s “Strangers”
I […]
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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post math w/ a feeling in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 5 months ago
There is a math to poetry: a counting of lines, a REcounting of memories, an arithmetic of the heart (no pun intended).
I despise math.
Whenever we learn about and discuss iambs and stresses and syllables, […]
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Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Getting out of your own way–, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 5 months ago
ughhhhhhh same.
I think one of the scariest things about being an artist is being afraid that I’ll just forget how to do my art (???)
The biggest source of writer’s block is the fear that I’m not good […]
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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post line break (up) in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 5 months ago
As I sit here in Panera Bread, wearing noise-cancelling headphones that don’t quite work (think: The Shins with a glorious orchestra of crying babies and clanking silverware), I’m thinking of some serious poetry […]
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Grace Gilbert commented on the post, There’s a Poem in That, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 5 months ago
Rachel,
I’m laughing because I do this all the time, mostly when joking with friends. The words, “I’m going to write a poem about that/you” have become sort of a quasi-sarcastic Taylor Swift-esque threat in my […]
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Grace Gilbert commented on the post, How do you define a poem?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 5 months ago
Maiah,
This is a great question to ask. I’m more of a creative nonfiction person, though I’ve focused on poetry for the past year or so, and I’ve noticed that the difference is in the cadence and the […]
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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post my old poems belong on MySpace (& other musings) in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months ago
Picture it: you submit a poem to a literary journal of any sort, knowing full well the risk of rejection. Months go by, seasons pass, and you slowly forget that you sent anything at all, imagining your submission […]
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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post feels & rusty stop signs. in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 6 months ago
In my hometown, there is a stop sign near a brick-clad elementary school that I pass every time I’m driving into town. The sign looks pretty standard until I approach the corroded base of it; underneath the bright […]
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Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Line as space, air, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 6 months ago
White space is awesome.
It reminds me of having too much space on a big couch.
You can sprawl out and lay across it, or you can take up one small cushion and tangibly feel the space beside you; in the same […]
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Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Poetry as Fiction?, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 6 months ago
I think fiction and memory can coincide quite effectively.
Often, I start writing about a particular moment in my life, and it turns into these half-fabricated and half-truth poems that do a better job […]
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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post calling all right brains ! in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 7 months ago
My brain thinks in pictures.
Mostly big ones.
This makes poetry hard when we’re dealing with small units like the line, punctuation, a space, a breath.
I was having a phone conversation about music […]
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Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Poems Within Poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem 6 years, 7 months ago
Rachel,
I find it interesting that you disagree with Phillips’ assertion that “…the first few words…will become the line, which will become the craft I need to carry on.” I think “carrying on” is not an […]
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