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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Writing with a Mental Illness in the group The Contemporary Poem: 6 years, 9 months ago
Lately I’ve been asking myself two questions:
Why can’t I get in to see a doctor sooner?
And
How does my mental illness affect my writing?
I usually ask these questions from my bed, staring out my […]
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Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Here’s what I’ve been doing all semester!, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years ago
Chloe! This is almost exactly what one of my final projects or Lytton’s Black Poetry class is about, except with movies, specifically La La Land and Moonlight especially since the mishap at the Oscars.
It […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Word Play with Harryette Mullen in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years ago
So I’ve talked about it before, but when I was in my first workshop we read Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen and it opened my world! First, I love that Mullen writes about her experience of be […]
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Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Dear Perfectionist,, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years ago
Allison,
Thank you for sharing that! This is exactly what I needed because I feel like everyone in Geneseo is a perfectionist, and that includes me lol. So I think this is really important for writers who […] -
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Poetic Source with Richard Simmons: Podcasts as Poetic Source in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years ago
Lately I’ve been trying to control my anxiety with podcasts and it’s been very helpful. It’s like this friend buzzing in your ear but you control the buzz, whenever you need it, you can turn it back on. Apart […]
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Gabriella Garcia edited the blog post Sometimes to be Great at Writing You Have to Suck at it Too in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 1 month ago
Today I was watching one of my favorite YouTube series, The What’s Underneath Project, which is a mother daughter project that interviews many people, usually women and usually artists, about what makes them themselves. During the interview the guests take off their clothes, an article per question. The interviews begin with questions about s…[Read more]
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Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Weaving in Womanhood, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 1 month ago
Grace!
As someone who is always so intrigued by what “womanhood” means in our different pockets of society this was a great read! I think it’s wonderful that you celebrate your “girl-ness” and that you find it a […] -
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Collaborating With Other Artists: My Struggles and Thought in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 1 month ago
So I’ve been dating a person, as it happens, and since we’re like besties we often just sit and work on our art together. Them being more of a visual and musical artist and I’m just words, we’ve been thinkin […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post My Sources in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 1 month ago
It’s so funny because I’ve been thinking a lot about my own poetry and where it comes from a lot lately in light of losing ideas stored on not one, but two laptops. I feel like I’ve been really searching for the r […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post I Finally Wrote a Form Poem and Understood in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
So I submitted my poetry portfolio, like all have or are in the process of doing, and I submitted a form poem. I didn’t think I was any good at form, but I found that the reason I liked this poem was because I […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post I’ve never thought of Australian Poetry as a Subset Genre in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
S0 I was on Poetry Foundation and I found this interesting article about Australian poetry and I found some interesting points and facts that I had never known. So Australian Aboriginal poetry is definitely a type […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
So in one of my classes this semester I was introduced to Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson. She lived 1875-1935 and was an African American, Anglo, Native American, and Creole woman who wrote poetry and short stories. […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Poetry and Politics in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
So I was reading this article a while ago and I thought there were some interesting things that it broached that maybe we never got to in our class debate of poetry and politics. I personally feel that there are […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Poems through Graphic Novels in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
So again back to when I thought I really wanted to be a teacher. I was looking up ways to really get kinds interested in poets they had never heard of before or introduce them to kinds of poetry they had never […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Google Poetics in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
You might have seen this before but here is a blog that uses google searches to make found poems. I think some of these aren’t organic however I don’t think that’s the point. It’s interesting to think about a […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Listening Booth! in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
So I was trying to find some cool poetry stuff to write about and I happened upon this great collection of audio recordings in the Woodberry Poetry Room. Go to the link and you’ll find a list of many recognizable […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post The Square Stanza in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
If we’re talking about the stanza as a room, this version of the stanza is a maze. So the way it works is that the stanza is the same across as it is down kind of like a sudoku. I got a really looming feeling from […]
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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Remember Rhymes? in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
So I thought I would share this website that generates all kinds of rhymes and takes alliteration into consideration. I don’t usually use rhyme however I really like this website because it considers syllables, […]
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Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, On Performing Poetry and Authorial Intent, on the site The Contemporary Poem 7 years, 10 months ago
Rachel,
I agree too! When I read my bread poem aloud it was a totally different experience and even though I had never read it aloud before I found myself taking on a whole new poem. I elongated words, sped up […] -
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Literary Journal/Magazine Themes in the group The Contemporary Poem: 7 years, 10 months ago
I was paging through a variety of literary journals and magazines today just looking for something good to read or submit to and I realized that it was just fun reading the concepts or themes of the journals and […]
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