English @ SUNY Geneseo | Gabriella Garcia | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/gsg2/activity/ Activity feed for Gabriella Garcia. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 730542c717e6416f5099d0f39194ea17 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Writing with a Mental Illness in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8380/ Wed, 14 Jun 2017 22:52:56 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 392cc21bd8f9225fd2efd1819dedfb33 Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Here's what I've been doing all semester!, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/03/20/heres-what-ive-been-doing-all-semester/#comment-9434 Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:45:48 -0500 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 […]

]]> dcc55d3103305b4b5f818a6bdc1363dd Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Word Play with Harryette Mullen in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8109/ Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:31:29 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 46b774fcac5eb6566c97c4f4bc78e1b3 Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Dear Perfectionist,, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/02/27/dear-perfectionist/#comment-9399 Thu, 16 Mar 2017 00:04:52 -0500 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 […]

]]> 29d9c9f279279dd9ec17227bf80b2536 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Poetic Source with Richard Simmons: Podcasts as Poetic Source in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8079/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:32:39 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 fb3664dda86951f4ab25150f60d64650 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 https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7908/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 05:53:51 -0500 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]

]]> 0 0f2876b5814f3f3314fd8c194f3adfd5 Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Weaving in Womanhood, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/02/06/weaving-in-womanhood/#comment-9211 Tue, 07 Feb 2017 05:09:10 -0500 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 […]

]]> c9e28dadaea373f03010b4cd05ce88e0 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Collaborating With Other Artists: My Struggles and Thought in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7906/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 04:55:19 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 889153c26aad8aa9d7a0c39dfdc59edf Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post My Sources in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7905/ Tue, 07 Feb 2017 04:51:01 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 ce4993dd0ad467fb2d0b8bfc2aa02772 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post I Finally Wrote a Form Poem and Understood in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6504/ Thu, 12 May 2016 02:27:08 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 15ddbac6e7da8456baaa36df4b88bc8e Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post I've never thought of Australian Poetry as a Subset Genre in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6503/ Thu, 12 May 2016 02:20:46 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 e46459aac45f09bf2ded9c6cc5f0c812 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6502/ Thu, 12 May 2016 02:05:16 -0500 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. […]

]]> 0 dc60bbb863d08ed97bc2f7fa0aab9be3 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Poetry and Politics in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6500/ Thu, 12 May 2016 01:34:25 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 65bbe5a1e56909845f9ff0a789462868 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Poems through Graphic Novels in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6497/ Thu, 12 May 2016 01:06:28 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 f295fed2098e4a33c4fd9d2283c134a7 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Google Poetics in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6448/ Sun, 08 May 2016 21:06:03 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 93b22876fcefcd4609ae413dbd8a5f1b Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Listening Booth! in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6446/ Sun, 08 May 2016 19:47:56 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 84ad41547f9e126eaf5252669927dc86 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post The Square Stanza in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6445/ Sun, 08 May 2016 19:13:53 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 a39dbd4106c22d0fac7af938a770db74 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Remember Rhymes? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6444/ Sun, 08 May 2016 18:17:40 -0500 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, […]

]]> 0 611fec025e27ac66c67ee42ad8d4287b Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, On Performing Poetry and Authorial Intent, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/05/04/on-performing-poetry-and-authorial-intent/#comment-7581 Sun, 08 May 2016 17:04:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 5e80a2067fca31a72f87a544779ff4a3 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Literary Journal/Magazine Themes in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6441/ Sun, 08 May 2016 04:40:56 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 5a734ab2716b84c827e9b0e2dc3d59d6 Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Service Job Poetics, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/05/07/service-job-poetics/#comment-7571 Sun, 08 May 2016 04:22:26 -0500 Nicole,
I think companion pieces would help to really focus in on some of the wide range of ideas coming from that poem. I do however want to highlight how much Native American imagery you used and so I wouldn’t […]

]]> 4eee7cdfbd488ecfaca994a8442306ef Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Trying Black Out Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/05/06/trying-black-out-poetry/#comment-7569 Sun, 08 May 2016 04:16:35 -0500 Nicole that sounds really interesting! Like the idea of “defacing.” Hmm that could be a collection. Something I found really interesting while blacking out my poem was that the page obviously had an agenda and a […]

]]> 1631638ef11ef864d16d45c3b3caaf7e Gabriella Garcia edited the blog post Teaching Poetry? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6424/ Sat, 07 May 2016 23:06:03 -0500 So recently I decided to drop my idea of becoming a teacher, for now, and focus on writing. But I wanted to talk bout how when I took my first teaching class we had to write a lesson plan and NO ONE wanted to teach poetry. I feel like oftentimes when I hear teachers or future educators talking about teaching poetry it’s with a little bit of fear…[Read more]

]]> 0 c81e222f8f20c9057999d634a297fb84 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Trying Black Out Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6426/ Sat, 07 May 2016 01:10:05 -0500 I tried black out poetry, which I had never tried before! Besides getting maybe a little high from the Sharpee fumes, it was fun and challenging. I had to really find a page that would need to be a black out poem […]

]]> 0 dedac3615c5ba99c8c64a1d9a6261e47 Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Poetry Prompt: Define Your Own Word, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/05/06/poetry-prompt-define-your-own-word/#comment-7563 Fri, 06 May 2016 23:59:43 -0500 Thangy

Thangy is the dangly waggly
the pants wrapped mast
the thangy gets me
tongue in cheek
the thumpin’ shaky
makin’ friendly
jigglin’
and that’s a thangy

]]> 0897d1fd54d4bcc4e65fbc98a0fba0ec Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Fragmentation, Distillation, Transformation: How much context do we need? in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6416/ Wed, 04 May 2016 18:18:36 -0500 In Gerry LaFemina’s article in the Writer’s Chronicle he writes about how writers of lyric poetry can use fragmentation to portray a feeling, often of grief. Lyric poetry he says is “noted for its brevity, its […]

]]> 0 58572c23dea026aba433e1c44e84f8a1 Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Poetics of Trauma, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/04/27/poetics-of-trauma/#comment-7557 Wed, 04 May 2016 16:52:13 -0500 I agree Rachel. Sometimes I’m not even writing about an experience of my own and something scarily familiar happens in one line or even one phrase and I realize something is clearly bothering me. This happens […]

]]> bb7b324664c95246b95053e90bd76449 Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Poetics of Trauma, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/04/27/poetics-of-trauma/#comment-7475 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 05:22:29 -0500 William, I’m a little worried about your wording in this post. I do feel that trauma poetry is a valid mechanism for coping with trauma however I don’t think that trauma poetry should be necessarily sought out. […]

]]> b4cda7cb872131aaaf6b943e3a0c191a Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post The Anxiety to Post about Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6321/ Wed, 20 Apr 2016 00:52:44 -0500 So here I am struggling for the thousandth time to write a blog post. I often start a post and then crumble under a frustrating feeling that I have no right to say anything about poetry, or should I say Poetry? I […]

]]> 0 5ca93be0f444af29e47c548807f407db Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/04/07/process/#comment-7451 Tue, 19 Apr 2016 23:11:03 -0500 I agree with Oliver that using form doesn’t mean you need to surrender to a “formal voice.” I think that there are many ways to implement form and I think part of the fun thing about form is challenging it.

My […]

]]> 6d1525f823685172305aecdfd38b5a33 Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, A Fear of Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/03/24/a-fear-of-poetry/#comment-7370 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:31:47 -0500 Rachel,
I’m sorry you had to be taught that way. I didn’t write any poetry in high school because we didn’t spend any time on actual writing. I’ve thought about this many times, the way poetry should be taught […]

]]> 9657f5cd2d13ea028acc1e952f7f5b45 Gabriella Garcia commented on the post, what is poetry?, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/03/28/what-is-poetry/#comment-7369 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 23:11:57 -0500 Sara I totally understand your logic. I also agree that we spend too much time on what is and what isn’t a poem. Something that always trips me up is why does it have to be defined? What is the/ is there a reason […]

]]> e74ab6f5c320742b04a529fa2c86c5c1 Gabriella Garcia wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=896 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:24:35 -0500  

After reading this article I was forced to focus on the relationship between poetry and music. These sister arts have both formed my identity as an artist and so as Szirtes asserts that this critique of form […]

]]> 1e03cc9f8f8a636749b10263f09c0efa Gabriella Garcia joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5887/ Wed, 27 Jan 2016 20:22:44 -0500 0 c326affe219b475ebe82c793e71a3f2d Gabriella Garcia became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5783/ Thu, 21 Jan 2016 02:21:54 -0500 0