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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Dream poetry in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months agoDoes anyone else have a hard time trying to convert dreams to poetry? I’ve been having some vivid and particularly strange dreams lately, the sort that feel as if they should provide good fuel for writing, but w […]
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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post A review of The Basketball Diaries in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months agoI recently picked up and read a copy of Jim Carroll’s The Basketball Diaries. The book contains a series of journal entries Jim Carroll, a writer and musician involved in Andy Warhol’s factory scene, wrote fro […]
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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Why I don’t play an instrument in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months agoI don’t have many theories on life, nothing like Sick Boy’s unifying theory of life from Trainspotting, but I do have one personal philosophy on the arts that I’m a little proud of and like to spout at the hours […]
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Henry Levin commented on the post, Poetry I don’t understand, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 5 months ago
Wow that’s a very cool idea. I might try this with some songs!
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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Poetry I don’t understand in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 5 months agoThe other day I was reading this Keat’s poem “The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream”, I was thoroughly enjoying it but also understanding none of it. The rather long piece was chock-full of mythological references I didn’ […]
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Henry Levin commented on the post, Spring, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 5 months ago
Yeah it’s a great time of the year, one of my best memories involves taking a sick day in seventh grade and reading a whole young adult fantasy novel while watching the heavy fog outside, the fog happened to have […]
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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Spring in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months agoI’ve been pretty happy with the weather change recently, I like the rainy, muddy, first weeks of Spring, where it feels as if Winter can be seen retreating. It’s no longer freezing and not yet sweltering, and wal […]
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Henry Levin commented on the post, Happy poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
Good points, thank you!
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Henry Levin commented on the post, Happy poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
I love that Bukowksi poem! And yeah, I’m gonna attempt to write some joy fueled poetry, but won’t force it either.
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Henry Levin commented on the post, Literary rush, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
Thanks, I’m glad about it too!
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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Happy poetry in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months agoWhen thinking of poets I tend to think of rather anxious, wallflower prone people. For the most part this is probably based around my own experiences and those represented on TV. Before I actually wrote poetry I […]
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Henry Levin commented on the post, Seamus Heaney’s Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 6 months ago
I’m a little confused, where do I mention addiction? Thanks for the heads up though.
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Henry Levin edited the blog post Literary rush in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 6 months agoWhat I like to call “the literary rush” is sometimes the sensation I base my existence around. I kind of use this phrase in a half joking, hyperbolic manner, because I’m sure when I say it to friends it brings to mind an image of someone snorting lines of poetry (I feel a little clever for writing that, but I’m near positive it’s been writ…[Read more]
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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Seamus Heaney’s Poetry in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months agoSeamus Heaney’s Selected Poems 1988-2013 commits itself to finding ornate detail in things commonly considered simple. While lots of poems translate something complicated into more easily digestible terms, H […]
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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Not all that Wilde in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months agoIn Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, the corrupting Lord Henry Wotton states that he enjoys the company of second rate artists over good artists. According to him good artists tend to lead boring lives, l […]
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Henry Levin commented on the post, Truth About My Pieces & The Addiction Within Them, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 7 months ago
I personally don’t think there’s really anything wrong in writing about cigarettes without having smoked one, it’s certainly for the best that you haven’t. However, I think it could be really interesting to be […]
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Henry Levin commented on the post, The Subpar Sublime, on the site The Contemporary Poem 5 years, 7 months ago
Yeah, isn’t it a crazy idea?! I guess I wish I could experience it more often but perhaps the point is that encounters with it must be few and far between or it isn’t so sublime.
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Henry Levin edited the blog post The Subpar Sublime in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months agoLately I’ve been a little fixated on the idea of “The Sublime”, terror equally intertwined with beauty. This idea seems to keep popping up in various classes and conversations, in art history class we examine its presence in paintings of shipwrecks and ominous churches, and while doing work in English class I happened upon it in a book of li…[Read more]
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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Exiting Existentialism in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 7 months agoI don’t know if anyone else has been encountering this, but as of late there seems to be some kind of influx of teen nihilists and kid Camus’s. It feels like the wannabe Nietzsche convention just let out acr […]
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Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Poetic Synchronicity in the group
The Contemporary Poem: 5 years, 8 months agoSometimes the right poem arrives at the right time, like fire to Prometheus. The stanzas that turn an otherwise purely sorrowful occasion into something remembered with a wistful smile. What would be ‘the awful p […]
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