English @ SUNY Geneseo | Oliver Diaz | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/inkcartridge/activity/ Activity feed for Oliver Diaz. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 4ff821d6ae9fe6444ffa8e07054067f3 Oliver Diaz commented on the post, Process, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/04/07/process/#comment-7398 Sat, 09 Apr 2016 14:28:39 -0500 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 […]

]]> bb5b80a0e511a228e7b9ecf8131cd4c6 Oliver Diaz wrote a new blog post On AWP, Genre-Crossing, and Flash Fiction in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6280/ Fri, 08 Apr 2016 22:44:46 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 176866cbe3db0df092721941af840cad Oliver Diaz wrote a new blog post Frank O'Hara's "Animals," Abstract vs. Concrete, and the Universal in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6259/ Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:26:22 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 80284d15d373d5bdb4a688785795b624 Oliver Diaz wrote a new blog post Author versus Speaker in the group The Contemporary Poem https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6238/ Tue, 15 Mar 2016 23:46:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 62a38ecf5fe26863f8544f8eea0056a9 Oliver Diaz commented on the post, Poetry for an audience, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/03/15/poetry-for-an-audience/#comment-7331 Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:23:35 -0500 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 […]

]]> 68c12d224e56327f324b429556ca7d21 Oliver Diaz commented on the post, From Prose to Poetry, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/02/13/from-prose-to-poetry/#comment-7311 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:22:05 -0500 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 […]

]]> 6982eef7ea9e41935d3477cc12f0ad0d Oliver Diaz commented on the post, The Death of Joy Gardner and the Power of Language, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/03/06/the-death-of-joy-gardner-and-the-power-of-language/#comment-7310 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 02:13:34 -0500 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.

]]> f4a6ef5ca20fb96ffda3461e82d57ea2 Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=1016 Sat, 05 Mar 2016 17:08:11 -0500 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 […]

]]> 6b4023b17c5d15dd5506df9a451833ca Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=1000 Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:48:58 -0500 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 […]

]]> 75f4af57972fbe66674290a81e03a0c6 Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=984 Mon, 22 Feb 2016 05:14:02 -0500 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 ( […]

]]> e20df91e22c68ce047aed0b8808a109b Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=948 Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:24:12 -0500 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, […]

]]> 6d0f08e95692a43d452f68b8d9760e07 Oliver Diaz commented on the post, Life, Art, Image, on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2016/02/12/life-art-image/#comment-7224 Sat, 13 Feb 2016 18:54:17 -0500 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 […]

]]> 6e4b0deff480d82816c29f3ef0bff0eb Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=921 Sun, 07 Feb 2016 16:53:17 -0500 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 […]

]]> e6a49219ad6583a5c31fd98db9532986 Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem http://cpoem.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=886 Wed, 27 Jan 2016 14:13:58 -0500 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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