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Oliver Diaz commented on the post, Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years ago
I like your point about form forcing formal voice, however, I don’t think it needs to be this way. If you let yourself be taken with the form, yes, I think you will be inclined to write a more formal or even more […]
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Oliver Diaz wrote a new blog post On AWP, Genre-Crossing, and Flash Fiction in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years ago
The Los Angeles Convention Center, next door to the Staples Center, is an expansive building that resembles an airport, high-ceilings, people running to and fro, minus the baggage and with a bit more comfort, in […]
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Oliver Diaz wrote a new blog post Frank O’Hara’s “Animals,” Abstract vs. Concrete, and the Universal in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years ago
A brief poem of four stanzas with fluctuating line length and an ear for consonance and assonance, Frank O’Hara’s “Animals” is a great example of playing with abstractions and concrete images in order to take a […]
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Oliver Diaz wrote a new blog post Author versus Speaker in the group The Contemporary Poem: 8 years, 1 month ago
A simple yet crucial concept, especially when it comes to poetry, is the position of the author and the speaker. I’ll provide a brief recap: the author is the person who wrote the work, the speaker is the narrator […]
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Oliver Diaz commented on the post, Poetry for an audience, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
I think a good way to go about choosing images that will resound with a larger audience is to think about mood, tone, atmosphere, and context. A white shirt is a clear image, but the connotations can change […]
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Oliver Diaz commented on the post, From Prose to Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
I understand your point, but I think is there a place for conversation as well, and that type of directness. The miscommunication of the dream and the less explicitly clear intentions do make the language more […]
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Oliver Diaz commented on the post, The Death of Joy Gardner and the Power of Language, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
Amanda,
I agree with your point here about perspectives and biases, and I enjoyed the poem. This is inspiring me to tackle the relationship between author and speaker as another perspective-based concept in our writing. -
Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
A few moments from our workshop have stayed with me and I have come to notice that they all speak to the same idea: poetry is a matter of picking the right words.
Well, obviously, but what intrigues me further […]
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Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 1 month ago
A pop musician is not an artist and someone who keeps a journal is not an artist (usually).
Although seemingly on opposite ends of the public-private spectrum, pop musicians and private writers are not artists […] -
Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
John Gallaher’s autobiographical poem, In a Landscape, consists of seventy-one poems in which Gallaher lays bare his thoughts, intimate experiences, and personal life.
In his poem titled XXVII ( […]
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Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
A phrase from workshop continues to ring in my ears:
“Prose is not the opposite of Poetry.”
And how thankful I am for that. Moving abruptly from a year and a half of writing prose into poetry has been difficult, […] -
Oliver Diaz commented on the post, Life, Art, Image, on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
Hi Evan,
I want to respond briefly by saying I agree. I think the role of the artist is to work far beyond the clichés and abstractions that are readily available to anyone in their day-to-day life. One of the […]
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Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
Nearing three weeks into the semester, the reality of poetry casts a long sharp shadow. Poets grapple with lines of images and writing them well is like tuning a guitar, turning the knobs, listening, waiting, t […]
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Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 8 years, 2 months ago
Although slightly different when it comes to poetry, form exists across all artistic disciplines. Form is structure, history, and ultimately, foundation for artistic expression.
While form works more obviously […]
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