English @ SUNY Geneseo | Henry Levin | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/henrycsl/activity/ Activity feed for Henry Levin. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 2b611afa1cb2ffbe3d4111a27f419729 Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Dream poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10076/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 20:44:42 -0500 Does 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 […]

]]> 0 43efaad637bd2c80d1909ed380c51ac7 Henry Levin wrote a new blog post A review of The Basketball Diaries in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10024/ Thu, 19 Apr 2018 19:46:47 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 0a632d1238ce883425e0781588eb1232 Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Why I don't play an instrument in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9992/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:37:55 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 a2dc158475fd9d6ade59b8c1bae5bc48 Henry Levin commented on the post, Poetry I don't understand, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/04/05/poetry-i-dont-understand/#comment-11746 Thu, 12 Apr 2018 20:58:37 -0500 Wow that’s a very cool idea. I might try this with some songs!

]]> 41de3cfe3514210cfd156d5c4ead0b52 Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Poetry I don't understand in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9934/ Fri, 06 Apr 2018 01:33:21 -0500 The 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’ […]

]]> 0 cc61f210f9f790432c46e30d9e94a595 Henry Levin commented on the post, Spring, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/03/30/spring/#comment-11699 Thu, 05 Apr 2018 19:28:11 -0500 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 […]

]]> 4a61586c5fd7659f87b4d4099f20ab9d Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Spring in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9894/ Fri, 30 Mar 2018 20:42:45 -0500 I’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 […]

]]> 0 46b770328817eacd7dd0e89c3ef5eb84 Henry Levin commented on the post, Happy poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/03/23/happy-poetry/#comment-11628 Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:25:33 -0500 Good points, thank you!

]]> 4bdf1f3673c0ddc6f2700311418002e3 Henry Levin commented on the post, Happy poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/03/23/happy-poetry/#comment-11627 Mon, 26 Mar 2018 19:25:11 -0500 I love that Bukowksi poem! And yeah, I’m gonna attempt to write some joy fueled poetry, but won’t force it either.

]]> d678c92bc4f617208529e851d0c1aa0a Henry Levin commented on the post, Literary rush, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/03/10/literary-rush/#comment-11597 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:33:35 -0500 Thanks, I’m glad about it too!

]]> a79153e4dd58baa4e6b1c71e424958ba Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Happy poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9847/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:32:13 -0500 When 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 […]

]]> 0 687eba6ce9df72f99b12862a0afc1976 Henry Levin commented on the post, Seamus Heaney's Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/03/02/seamus-heaneys-poetry/#comment-11546 Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:00:34 -0500 I’m a little confused, where do I mention addiction? Thanks for the heads up though.

]]> 2397e98ebe5593652ee82aeb21d5354f Henry Levin edited the blog post Literary rush in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9786/ Sat, 10 Mar 2018 19:13:38 -0500  

What 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]

]]> 0 6f2519139126a797c3e6aa65adfa9e6e Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Seamus Heaney's Poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9760/ Fri, 02 Mar 2018 21:56:40 -0500 Seamus 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 […]

]]> 0 99926080cf9fd04a6f07a94474746234 Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Not all that Wilde in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9736/ Mon, 26 Feb 2018 23:11:23 -0500 In 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 […]

]]> 0 9c9bd8a5c40e1e482c3b0a49f8b24c09 Henry Levin commented on the post, Truth About My Pieces & The Addiction Within Them, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/02/21/truth-about-my-pieces-the-addiction-within-them/#comment-11397 Thu, 22 Feb 2018 20:07:43 -0500 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 […]

]]> e62f06c5eff5b0937dbe05faa23738b4 Henry Levin commented on the post, The Subpar Sublime, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/02/15/the-subpar-sublime/#comment-11361 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 22:25:07 -0500 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.

]]> ef45689f6d3fe221182b14da48d7d6fe Henry Levin edited the blog post The Subpar Sublime in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9671/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 00:16:03 -0500  

Lately 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]

]]> 0 a90b5fade128ba09c7a905dfd326a174 Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Exiting Existentialism in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9625/ Thu, 08 Feb 2018 20:40:23 -0500 I 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 […]

]]> 0 3de81593da10c2c064b4242b10df8454 Henry Levin wrote a new blog post Poetic Synchronicity in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9568/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 20:36:58 -0500 Sometimes 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 […]

]]> 0 1ca5d700710316aa2fe41295bba99876 Henry Levin commented on the post, A little about my thoughts on music and poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/01/24/a-little-about-my-thoughts-on-music-and-poetry/#comment-11196 Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:11:52 -0500 Gabriella,

Thank you for the feedback. That bit by Lopate gave me my literary fix for the day! I like your advice about scaffolding around the music and intend to explore it further. Thanks again.

]]> 2011bea27fcc1ada223d6e56bde35ad8 Henry Levin wrote a new blog post A little about my thoughts on music and poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9488/ Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:35:30 -0500 I don’t know how often I consciously think of the connection between sound and poetry, but I do, on some level, acknowledge it. When writing poetry for instance, I turn off any music that may be playing. If I w […]

]]> 0 415b78ecf9dba910447eba91b3aa305a Henry Levin joined the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9478/ Wed, 24 Jan 2018 21:29:11 -0500 0 6c31fec4d59c419e28b0f53f84646b92 Henry Levin became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9453/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 06:25:16 -0500 0