English @ SUNY Geneseo | Grace Gilbert | Group Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/gracegilbert/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which Grace Gilbert is a member. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 91544acf8ed4a7d1ca0111234e1d8dbd Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Not Poetry....?, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15088/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 15:08:00 -0500 I am also really bad at writing anything that isn’t poetry. Fun fact, my college essay was a poem! I just took the lines out and made it a paragraph. I will never understand why I got into colleges with that! My […]

]]> 0 08f9a8594807928bc28fbd945715d28a Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Not Poetry....? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15087/ Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:11:04 -0500 One thing that has me unhappy is that I have already taken two poetry workshops, and therefore need to take a workshop that isn’t poetry. Moving away from what makes me comfortable has always been something I t […]

]]> 0 096ebd0ae3bdacf0cdfaad07b68bbd13 Hannah Fahy wrote a new blog post Underwater in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15067/ Fri, 20 Mar 2020 02:16:40 -0500 It’s spring break, and it’s past my bedtime, but I had to write this. I think my blog posts are getting crazier by the second, but stick with me here. What could I do to make my poetry sound like it’s under […]

]]> 0 d6b57604ca9e2026e3713b14ae8eb1fa Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post If...Write. in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15046/ Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:56:05 -0500 If you’re leaving for spring break, write about going home. If you’re staying, write on the green about the silver wind. If you’re coming back for the rest of the semester, write to tell us about the haunting […]

]]> 0 e70203ad551d9fa767e8c157b651f5f5 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Perspective Writing/Reading in Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15045/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:45:30 -0500 I have no idea if this is anything close to your Great Day presentation, but playing off of perspective, I bet it would be fun to have an item on display – something simple, but hard to recognize; maybe something […]

]]> 0 e134dd1c678efa21d52a34465d4e8c60 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Poetic Obsessions, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15044/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:35:16 -0500 I think it’s a natural artistic tendency to avoid covering the same subject matter once you’ve already addressed it (as is the opposite, only focusing your efforts on one subject matter). It almost feels like we […]

]]> 0 b529419d2561bb3b190b2dcb42e630c1 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15043/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:18:13 -0500 “I have a nephew and I absolutely adore this kid. He’s six years old, about yay high and he loves to play. So one day, Jayden and I are in the front yard and we are having a blast. I needed to go inside for a m […]

]]> 0 0453546f33dc0ee0b8d9c954795f0f2e Kyle Navratil edited the blog post The Most Important Word: Hermeneutics in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15042/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 13:15:29 -0500 This past Saturday I delivered a TEDx talk here at SUNY Geneseo and I wanted to post the written transcript for those who couldn’t be there. I will only post the first third on here and then leave the rest as a […]

]]> 0 b9a03593aae6d9d35a8bb813f3a834dc Hannah Fahy wrote a new blog post Poetic Obsessions in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15041/ Wed, 11 Mar 2020 00:03:28 -0500 I write a lot more than ever gets shown to anyone. I think that’s how it should be, not everything needs to make it to a final draft, the act of writing itself is good to practice. However, I’ve noticed what my […]

]]> 0 ec7c2f43c07d09eabcb962404f59ae3b Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Zines in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15040/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 19:26:17 -0500 I’m surprised that in such a savvy course such as this, we’ve somehow totally circumvented the subject of zines. Zines are small, largely individually produced “magazines” (though many, if not most, tend to be […]

]]> 0 418712871de4456b3c1e3b0b25fb792a Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Perspective Writing/Reading in Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15039/ Tue, 10 Mar 2020 05:12:54 -0500 So recently I’ve been in the planning stages of my Great Day presentation and in doing so I’ve believe I have found another source for poetry; what I’m speaking of is perspective. Almost every human being has the […]

]]> 0 51e71f39ecb853e56c15df1c14df2c50 Liz Louie wrote a new blog post Source from Written Works in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15038/ Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:14:17 -0500 I like to think that I have a fairly full and diverse bookshelf, both at college and at home. Some of these titles can easily reflect in my work, some of them can’t. Each has a certain aspect that can be viewed a […]

]]> 0 5f76e2d75314805e356e570927a5d5a6 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila commented on the post, Poets as Cameras, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15037/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 21:21:54 -0500 I read this as I was people watching/doing my homework in the mail room lol. I love the idea of the camera and how a poets embodiment of one can lead to distance. I also struggle with distancing myself from my […]

]]> 0 ca3800dc62dd10eec834e3154df806a4 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post Poet Ex Machina in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15036/ Sat, 07 Mar 2020 20:54:01 -0500 I don’t want to compare poets to machines: spewing out verses like the Lamron printer spews out newspapers. I just mean to express that our brains never stop creating. I have a notes app file dedicated to […]

]]> 0 95680e02edfa81b7910030a7012d4666 Hannah Fahy wrote a new blog post Poets as Cameras in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15034/ Thu, 05 Mar 2020 18:27:31 -0500 My very first class here at Geneseo in fall of 2016 was ENGL 203 Reader & Text: Adaptation & Discipline with Professor Harrison. The class was all about works of literature that are adapted over and over by other […]

]]> 0 0a736e456de718290b1d932617843bfc Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Slang, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15033/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:05:40 -0500 I think this would make such a cool poem! A poem made entirely out of slang terms for sex reminds me of the blonde joke poem we read in class. I hope you choose to write this!

]]> 0 c1dabb154ed1228f6de220a6e4be08c7 Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Repressed memories?, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15032/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 17:04:42 -0500 I think this is really interesting! I would love to read more on poetry as therapy. I think a lot of poets (especially those who write without the intent of being published) use poetry as a coping mechanism. […]

]]> 0 30d61c136342cbb5f289d75a5b3eb8e5 Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post Slang in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15031/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:57:02 -0500 Slang as a concept is fascinating – little verbal workarounds and implied connotations to construe a concept. It is not always used for the best means – how many slang terms were created on sexist, racist, […]

]]> 0 5d5496a4fc8bb5b43880b7cb6adf4699 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Art & Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15030/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:38:49 -0500 I find it so interesting that Gandy Dancer – among other literary magazines, this is not a Gandy exclusive deal – puts submitted images and poems/prose/etc. next to one another with the implication that they go […]

]]> 0 87b6fa5fddc1178bfe180621ac476fa4 Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Repressed memories?, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15029/ Wed, 04 Mar 2020 16:34:35 -0500 Psychology major here. Don’t worry – the first (and most valuable) concept you learn in psychology courses is that there are no absolute truths and that invariably what you are learning to be true in one class is […]

]]> 0 bb2d12f7319e8e4d3130f9529e440032 Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Repressed memories? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15028/ Tue, 03 Mar 2020 03:43:02 -0500 In my past blog post “Home Depot by Brian Turner,” I talked about poetry being able to draw out repressed memories. After doing some digging, I found that the memory I was describing as repressed could be arg […]

]]> 0 9c8f200126619141f4b68de5275f2314 Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Poetry in Youth, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15027/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 20:17:46 -0500 Please write this poem!!!!!!! Education major to education major, I need you to write this! I often think about the absolutely ridiculous things my students said, and I taught 7, 8, 10, 11, & 12, so I can’t […]

]]> 0 cf64acebced0c3cca98703c11ff3cdfd Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Thinking Without Words in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15026/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 19:03:17 -0500 Have you ever thought of what it would be like to think
without words? What would it be like to think without pictures, syllogisms,
typeset, linguistic codification in binaries, tertiaries, quaternaries, or […]

]]> 0 70eebce3eff62c26ea9bed31af38dce9 Lyndsay Tudman wrote a new blog post Art & Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15025/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:15:19 -0500 This semester, I am in ENGL 426 with Rachel Hall. Basically, the entire class reads, edits and publishes the SUNY wide literary magazine called Gandy Dancer. For one of our assignments, we had to read the last […]

]]> 0 2bf8b375f9589e450a8b13e0b13987c4 Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Don't make me say it, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15024/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:44:10 -0500 I feel like your poetry could absolutely keep a wall up and remain impersonal, there is no obligation to lay everything bare. But there absolutely is the misconflation between poetry being personal, and poetry […]

]]> 0 871bc9553f88234731e51fc831568e7c Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Poetry in Pictures, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15023/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 21:07:17 -0500 You may know them, but I wanna point you towards two artists who try a very similar thing to what you describe here.
Evan Cohen (https://wetflakeybark.tumblr.com/) creates one-page graphic panels that have a […]

]]> 0 e3d0e5e843163cf61ef23ddf18d5d21c Katelyn Daniels commented on the post, The Sketchbook Project, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15022/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:29:24 -0500 Jessica, I was so intrigued to read this blog post. I have never heard of anything like this before! What an amazing project and “in the making” basically constantly. It was really nice to see the variety of work […]

]]> 0 91dc4eed924c33b507e4715c9523efb7 Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post "Film is an Empathy Machine, Poetry is a What Machine?" in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15021/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:20:16 -0500 I keep coming back to our in-class exercise prompt Wednesday: “Film is an empathy machine, poetry is a what machine?” I really didn’t grasp it then (“reverse-engineer code,” what?) and I still don’t know, but t […]

]]> 0 c626d749d88479f2cd007469e3ba5fff Katelyn Daniels wrote a new blog post Poetry in Youth in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15020/ Sun, 01 Mar 2020 20:18:10 -0500 This past month, I have attempted to get ahead on assignments & projects in classes, and extra curricula’s. This includes visits to elementary schools in the Rochester area as it is required as an early childhood […]

]]> 0 f76b111711eb9f39a400f0addb4c6e37 Jessica Bansbach wrote a new blog post The Sketchbook Project in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15018/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:44:39 -0500 There’s a potential source of inspiration that some of you might be interested in checking out. The Brooklyn Art Library serves a very specific function to its local and global community – it is the physical […]

]]> 0 31f3cebcb9f1e96fe1a288731e65dccb Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Poetry in Pictures, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15017/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:03:48 -0500 I think you’d enjoy paging through some zines! I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of those; they’re these small, independently made “magazines” (a lot of them can fit in the palm of your hand, though) that usually […]

]]> 0 7c29846ccf225ebc070de2a9dacac0ad Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Happy Poems Just Don't Happen, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15016/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:52:42 -0500 I guess that depends on what you consider happy! Happy is a wide range of emotions, including (but not limited to):

– bittersweet
– blithe
– playful
– incidental
– right
– celebratory

I think there’s a […]

]]> 0 d21f0cb4f40f7f0cf1659d9bbec4ec4b Jessica Bansbach commented on the post, Don't make me say it, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15015/ Fri, 28 Feb 2020 17:45:48 -0500 There is a large amount of vulnerability involved in the creation of poetry, so the instinct to patch up anything that might hint at it is understandable. But I think there’s a lot to be said in giving our readers […]

]]> 0 e1a8bcd0e6429c903a312b3b196a5353 Kayla Eyler wrote a new blog post Don't make me say it in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15012/ Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:49:03 -0500 I spent most of last week writing a long poem about a lot of things but mainly grapefruits and my friend Aeryn. She wanted me to write it, and I wanted to write it, and when I was done writing it, she asked if […]

]]> 0 d400583a44cc0940072cd78eaf839853 Lidabel A. Guzman Avila commented on the post, Things I am going to STEAL, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15010/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 18:07:55 -0500 I love the idea of “stealing” but not plagiarizing from other people’s work. It’s more considered to be a source of inspiration rather than a place your brain lacks in creativity. Tarantino does the same things […]

]]> 0 3300d7889cfaa064d0651a5591bd705e Hannah Fahy wrote a new blog post Poetry in Pictures in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15009/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 17:14:54 -0500 I will admit that I am writing this without any research, but I wanted to get this idea down before I forgot it. In class today we talked about language, and someone brought up that people think in words, and […]

]]> 0 f19169626ba9c7e5407c08b7a182459b Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Happy Poems Just Don't Happen, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15008/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:29:55 -0500 I have struggled with this so much! I used to think that there just isn’t happy poetry. I’m not sure what it was that snapped or changed, but recently I’ve tried writing more upbeat poems. The poem I used for the […]

]]> 0 6c6d73acbaca9a3e01c4e0c74885ce2a Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Abstract Reality, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15007/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 06:07:58 -0500 I don’t agree, I feel that, when used in conjunction with grounded images and striking actions, abstractions can be powerful. Of course, you don’t want to use a word like “envy” on it’s own, but when you connect […]

]]> 0 cfac8849ca4ab238bd2d62c43e3fc837 Nick Vanamee commented on the post, Things I am going to STEAL, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15006/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 05:24:50 -0500 Going back to our discussion about great poets stealing lines, I feel like there’s an imbalance in the way we think about intellectual theft- taking and improving on other people’s craft is absolutely essential to […]

]]> 0 e76fda9e1a599d758e4faaf327be55c7 Lyndsay Tudman wrote a new blog post Happy Poems Just Don't Happen in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15005/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:53:34 -0500 I have never written a happy poem. I am sure that I am not the only one who struggles with writing something happy, but I simply cannot bring myself to writing about something that makes me happy. Sometimes, I’ll […]

]]> 0 c2c4718f78d7521cd150e6871f7e22c5 Nick Vanamee wrote a new blog post Cadence & Presentation in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15004/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:34:36 -0500 As an introduction to
found poetry, Professor Beltz-Hosek made a poem out of the back of a pack of
Sticky Notes. She cut up each sentence into lines, and what surprised us all is
that it didn’t not work. Breaking […]

]]> 0 9d17bbfd34d3443556e89e2755996517 Zachary Vila wrote a new blog post Here, Bullet in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15003/ Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:11:55 -0500 In this week’s blog post, I was gonna talk about a point I brought up in my previous one. In which poetry and writing has the ability to bring forward suppressed memories. However, my copy of Here, Bullet by B […]

]]> 0 f142f6d8f02fdeabbf5a1b658d2110e6 Tanya Korichkova wrote a new blog post Things I am going to STEAL in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14988/ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 19:08:26 -0500 I forget what day we talked about this in class, but there was a quote that said, “Good poets borrow. Great poets steal.” I wish I had copies from the poems we have already workshopped, but there are def […]

]]> 0 aa7e6e5547a950686dcdc940e88423e7 Troy Seefried wrote a new blog post Abstract Reality in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14986/ Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:24:27 -0500 One of the most challenging thing for writers, in my
opinion, is avoiding abstraction in your work, especially in a medium like
poetry. I’ve fallen victim to the use of words like “fear,” “anger,” and
ironi […]

]]> 0 0e042770e62d69c71ce4e9156b6480c3 Kyle Navratil wrote a new blog post Mass Hierarchies and Art Monopolies in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14985/ Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:46:35 -0500 The 21st century has brought with it advancements and complications that nobody in the pre-digital age dealt with: the dotcom boom is our modern Gutenberg press.

The industrialized automaton
of book printing […]

]]> 0 9e18c4845c79a2b1a4c923a28d99ac60 Hannah Fahy commented on the post, Tumblr "Vent Art", on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14982/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 17:57:14 -0500 I would love to see how you apply this in poetry! I wonder what the order of operations would be. Find the “childhood item” and then write about it or write a poem and then transcribe it onto the “childhood […]

]]> 0 7ce9ae21d92c42aa4a1185067461c6d6 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Word Vomit, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14981/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:26:32 -0500 I appreciated the “all over the place” rant. That’s interesting that is what brought you to Geneseo (I’m here because I live like 45 minutes away and tuition is cheap) but the metaphor for your poems being a kind […]

]]> 0 b26ae35fb5670a61c10acbf57469e99a Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Poetry & My Week, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14980/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:19:18 -0500 You caught fire?! That is incredible, I didn’t know that you were flammable! Glad to hear you’re alright though. I think that the weirdest, most awkward part of poetry is letting the undercurrent swell into words. […]

]]> 0 8cc7258e0a1346bec57852307891df87 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Interaction between text and reader, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14979/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:07:02 -0500 A phenomenal essay that I encourage you to read is Wolfgang Iser’s “A phenomenological approach to reading” (adjectival pun intended). The notion that there is a text that all readers bring to any text, and the […]

]]> 0 477239eef0ec4219191b3af9a95c3373 Kyle Navratil commented on the post, Poetry in Music, on the site The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14978/ Wed, 19 Feb 2020 00:00:54 -0500 I’m with you on thinking that a lot of pop-music is merely a catchy tag-line with not much depth. Yet the irony is that “pop” is merely “popular.” And while it is true that many gravitate towards the aesthetically […]

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