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Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post i in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 4 months 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 […]
Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post i write because i’m selfish in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 4 months 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: 8 years, 6 months 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 wrote a new blog post book swap ? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 7 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) […]
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: 8 years, 7 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 […]
Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post indeed the tulips change tense too quickly in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 7 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 […]
Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post math w/ a feeling in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 9 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, […]
Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post line break (up) in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 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 […]
Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post my old poems belong on MySpace (& other musings) in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 10 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 […]
Grace Gilbert wrote a new blog post feels & rusty stop signs. in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 11 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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