English @ SUNY Geneseo | William Hess | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/hesswm/activity/ Activity feed for William Hess. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 ba5f7c8e0b38620492673f88e3cd1f6b William Hess commented on the post, Poetics of Trauma, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/04/27/poetics-of-trauma/#comment-7477 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 05:56:17 -0500 I can’t say I don’t agree with you.

I was hoping to suggest that there are elements in poetry that can redeem, transform, and transport— both toward and away trauma; difficult emotions to process; the […]

]]> 587b6bec76f74a058b759eb7476297a3 William Hess wrote a new blog post Poetics of Trauma in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6354/ Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:05:07 -0500 It might be a little late in the semester to be wondering about where to generate poetry from, but in a quick move to generate a few more points in the positive, I’ve been wondering about the transformation of […]

]]> 0 06e2963a4a466fcfd0b3485c73108b1e William Hess wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=1020 Sun, 06 Mar 2016 14:47:51 -0500 I’ve been interested by one of the two modes of poetry that is brought up in class.  That of Robert Lowell: why not tell what happened.   I think mostly because in my poetry, I struggle to tell what happened— t […]

]]> 8b6d5b5a1156e22958bda890727052a4 William Hess wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=971 Thu, 18 Feb 2016 03:03:02 -0500 Last week I typed out a frantic post equating poetry and essay in a highly convoluted and not particularly articulate manner.  This week I intend to do the same, but plan to add an extra layer of pretension by […]

]]> a1d8f79235b957515058fc58e7efa094 William Hess wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=927 Mon, 08 Feb 2016 14:28:59 -0500 In the classical meaning, an “essay” wasn’t some assignment teachers doled out like tic-tacs, but a simple attempt to prove something.  It translates into English as “to test” or “to try.”  The simple d […]

]]> ac34dafed0ea64801e5eb641cd744412 William Hess wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=864 Sat, 23 Jan 2016 15:27:59 -0500 To front-load my argument and answer the question, “how does form matter to my poetry” as quickly and bluntly as possible, allow me to not only quote Szirtes, but do something wholly unnatural for me and agree wit […]

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