English @ SUNY Geneseo | Grace Gilbert | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/gracegilbert/activity/ Activity feed for Grace Gilbert. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 bbd4e7a900cd2a3d10f26d2df65c8acc Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post i in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9980/ Thu, 12 Apr 2018 16:34:25 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 40fddb87c4399b7797dba34d23a9d2bf Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Keep Moving Forward, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/04/04/keep-moving-forward/#comment-11741 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:56:34 -0500 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 […]

]]> 203a617785060a97f9405e5177cdf5d6 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post i write because i'm selfish in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9976/ Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:46:07 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 8eae0b711a737c636073fe02b1ffb773 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post the amputee's guide to sex & other discoveries of disability in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9745/ Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:27:11 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 e55ed9250d951072e9afc91f8053b483 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Truth About My Pieces & The Addiction Within Them, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/02/21/truth-about-my-pieces-the-addiction-within-them/#comment-11400 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 22:15:10 -0500 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 […]

]]> 8023dcbb87dc3488136c787c94f0f170 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Mixing Spacing Up, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/02/17/mixing-spacing-up/#comment-11363 Mon, 19 Feb 2018 05:38:11 -0500 white
space
is

the shit.

honestly, if we take pauses within our normal conversations, and poetry is as fluid as breath, as speech, as […]

]]> 5e5861c9d15240278aa83102c806a898 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post book swap ? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9616/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:38:44 -0500 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) […]

]]> 0 deb26a33562597da65e3f6b72c998411 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9599/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 03:24:12 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 7b93488d056b6310eaebabea15f3c676 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post indeed the tulips change tense too quickly in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9460/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:24:59 -0500 “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 […]

]]> 0 42d01bafa1096adeb791d37aeae044e1 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post math w/ a feeling in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9075/ Mon, 27 Nov 2017 01:23:02 -0500 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, […]

]]> 0 1617dc701183acc2e0c612fb1e244551 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Getting out of your own way--, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/11/13/getting-out-of-your-own-way/#comment-10775 Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:27:50 -0500 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 […]

]]> a59dcbab27fd7fecfa79757ab459a726 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post line break (up) in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8941/ Sun, 05 Nov 2017 19:58:44 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 3957d69fa0cf1c7a750f314ba1aa9092 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, There's a Poem in That, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/26/theres-a-poem-in-that/#comment-10688 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:34:16 -0500 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 […]

]]> 3b898cdd426060d45aba4a6579925523 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, How do you define a poem?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/30/how-do-you-define-a-poem/#comment-10687 Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:25:16 -0500 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 […]

]]> b3818247139ddfc46b9a01975414a9d4 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post my old poems belong on MySpace (& other musings) in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8861/ Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:39:32 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 4b155060499ed82393a11a86c996cc7a Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post feels & rusty stop signs. in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8788/ Mon, 09 Oct 2017 02:45:45 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 844552a4add6b8897c3ac459db4e689d Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Line as space, air, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/02/line-as-space-air/#comment-10562 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:32:47 -0500 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 […]

]]> cd51d80ec81c4385ed49d6bf723070b8 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Poetry as Fiction?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/04/2010/#comment-10561 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:24:27 -0500 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 […]

]]> ca9e62635dc88d49b6a6247ad3733433 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post calling all right brains ! in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8706/ Tue, 26 Sep 2017 19:41:12 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 c4854caf33fd00fdade1a2b21c21db21 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Poems Within Poems, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/09/18/poems-within-poems/#comment-10473 Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:46:16 -0500 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 […]

]]> 67a433c3ac1c274fd9ad390b9cae78a4 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post the option to linger in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8563/ Mon, 11 Sep 2017 16:39:01 -0500 I value poems with a story and a general narrative flow from A to Z. As a writer, I tend toward creative non-fiction, and thereby adopt many of it’s inherent principles even while writing other genres. When I […]

]]> 0 f9c61588520a577254935a05b6558315 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post Tides & Curly Fries in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8467/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:54:22 -0500 This summer I ate curly fries almost every single day.

I smelled like kid sweat and mod podge.

I also had barely any time to be alone and write extensively…mostly anything I was able to write was written […]

]]> 0 b022dbd5dd4c70e6274ba371a2dcfff8 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post People! (a prelude to my source showcase) in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8181/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 18:21:25 -0500 Hello hello,

I wanted to write a post concerning my source showcase next week, which is largely centered around people & living source.

I struggled for awhile with figuring out how to fully understand […]

]]> 0 7980d2b4e56a22ad53ba2340403d29c9 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Steam of (ADHD) Consciousness: Taking cues from Diego's "Poetry Freestyle/Off the dome/", on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/04/04/steam-of-consciousness-taking-cues-from-diegos-poetry-freestyleoff-the-dome/#comment-9513 Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:38:57 -0500 David,

This was really cool to read. I love how rhythmic your stream of consciousness seems to be, and I agree that it is super important and very relevant to our understanding of the self and the mind.

When […]

]]> 43809b9c504f6edb8fc400c0a53dc1d4 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post In remembering the classical in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8165/ Sun, 02 Apr 2017 23:01:22 -0500 Sometimes I forget about the classical.

I get so caught up in the contemporary that it’s easy to look back in disdain for poetry and craft that existed in a time before the trends that poetry is seeing […]

]]> 0 7e033830fe5055573fa35643f5aa5c10 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post Writing the Happy, Writing in Appreciation? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8150/ Wed, 29 Mar 2017 17:31:51 -0500 I never had good friends in high school. Heck, by the end I didn’t really even have friends in high school. I had one or two friends, only one of which I talk to on occasion still. High school was a slow, dragging […]

]]> 0 2abd6000133ed0e60675dd8d0a161c7a Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post Library Hours in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8101/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:17:22 -0500 Over the “spring” break, while trapped in my lovely boyfriend’s small hometown for three extra days due to the blizzard (can’t complain), I got some much needed library time. He and I, both advocates of “Woah The […]

]]> 0 c0cb9e5393be267eb71495f4e1578438 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post Place, place, displace in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8036/ Sat, 04 Mar 2017 18:06:04 -0500 I figured I would jot down my thought process in crafting the upcoming writing exercise. I’ve noticed that the places I’ve tended to write about the most lately are quite disjointed in nature:

Kitchens (of all […]

]]> 0 3842944b784d0ff0cbdfc128cad22b55 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post SUBMIT! in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7993/ Tue, 21 Feb 2017 16:28:44 -0500 Submission sounds like a dirty word.

When I think of submission, I think of the Church and I think of writing. Either way, I have always been too stubborn to NOT cringe at the thought of submitting under […]

]]> 0 af8fcf2d04c7cdb7711366c00a440640 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post I guess I'll blog about love...*collective sigh* in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7950/ Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:53:33 -0500 I told the guy I’m seeing that I don’t want to celebrate Valentine’s Day. He was relieved to hear this, of course, so he wouldn’t have to try and present a gift that represents love when “I love you” has been a […]

]]> 0 6eb7d162ad7ec0fa460c8d2e51bcb759 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Collaborating With Other Artists: My Struggles and Thought, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/02/06/collaborating-with-other-artists-my-struggles-and-thought/#comment-9235 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:23:02 -0500 Collaboration seems so ideal and productive.
As it is, though, collaboration is actually kind of hard to do. I think, as someone who processes my writing, and thinks by writing…it’s hard to include someone […]

]]> 2b78f6a0490821327d8e762e2f3a3b37 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Sometimes to be Great at Writing You Have to Suck at it Too, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/02/07/sometimes-to-be-great-at-writing-you-have-to-suck-at-it-too/#comment-9234 Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:13:30 -0500 I just wrote a blog post about the confusingness of knowing whether a poem sucks or not…without even reading this!
Girl, I get you. *Virtual fist pump and collective sighing ensues.*
Especially with putting […]

]]> 6b15e98711b973bf6849ce0f0f43ed92 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post the art of "suck": a poet's eternal question in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7926/ Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:07:45 -0500 Whether it’s on a word processor, a napkin, tattooed on my body, a piece of lined paper…the same question always seems to get asked when a piece of my craft is finished:

Does this suck?

I know that every […]

]]> 0 fffd5a6002136767df67ea8ad11ec8af Grace Gilbert edited the blog post Weaving in Womanhood in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7901/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 03:06:39 -0500 I’ve seen themes of my poetry dwell in the familial realm for many years. When I was younger, I would write poetry about my younger sister and how proud (or angry) I was that she was born. I would write about my Mother being the comfiest pillow ever. I would write, write, write about how much I loved being in a “girls only” household with my mom…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0418ea5f382cfa68609b1744d003e56 Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post Inspiration from Hell in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7865/ Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:12:54 -0500 I’m currently taking a class solely concentrated on Dante’s Divine Comedy (right now we’re journeying through the Inferno). Normally, I wouldn’t be exactly psyched about this, but I think the class has proven to […]

]]> 0 5039a6845ff0375bd244b305127c1345 Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Sources I turn to..., on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/01/16/sources-i-turn-to/#comment-9091 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 20:32:51 -0500 It is such a beautiful thing that we can draw source from the self. I think the theme of boyhood/childhood and simplicity reign throughout your sources, and also the heritage that has been central to your […]

]]> 5be892d99f83d453b300a73c8c54711d Grace Gilbert commented on the post, Expression and Understanding, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/01/16/expression-and-understanding/#comment-9090 Fri, 20 Jan 2017 17:32:16 -0500 Upon reading through your post, a particular line jumped out at me, “I write to have a voice for when it’s difficult to verbalize.” ~*cue Grace spitting up lukewarm coffee all over her T-shirt*~
Yes, yes, and […]

]]> 035dd28a6dca9930d80b208b0f9c23dd Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post Grace Drawn from Grace in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7734/ Mon, 16 Jan 2017 01:32:18 -0500 Throughout most of my childhood, which was spent with my favorite dense, multi-colored pencil in hand, I carried around a hefty journal (three rings, with a blue daisy on the cover) in which I wrote countless […]

]]> 0 8c35f7fd80b9f14ebffada888a8a8f11 Grace Gilbert changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7733/ Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:51:25 -0500 0 41e2d1dec082575e422caa4eb8e22e56 Grace Gilbert joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7732/ Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:47:18 -0500 0 d1944ed664cb90e46bb01a2fa5a06b83 Grace Gilbert became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7730/ Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:46:35 -0500 0