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Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Writing with a Mental Illness in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 2 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 […]
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Word Play with Harryette Mullen in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 5 months 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 […]
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Poetic Source with Richard Simmons: Podcasts as Poetic Source in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 5 months 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 […]
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: 9 years, 7 months 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]
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Collaborating With Other Artists: My Struggles and Thought in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 7 months 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 […]
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post My Sources in the group The Contemporary Poem: 9 years, 7 months 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 […]
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post I Finally Wrote a Form Poem and Understood in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 3 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 […]
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post I’ve never thought of Australian Poetry as a Subset Genre in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 3 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 […]
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 3 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. […]
Gabriella Garcia wrote a new blog post Poetry and Politics in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 3 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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