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Oliver Diaz wrote a new blog post On AWP, Genre-Crossing, and Flash Fiction in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 5 months 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 […]
Oliver Diaz wrote a new blog post Frank O’Hara’s “Animals,” Abstract vs. Concrete, and the Universal in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 5 months 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 […]
Oliver Diaz wrote a new blog post Author versus Speaker in the group The Contemporary Poem: 10 years, 5 months 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 […]
Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 6 months 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 […]
Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 6 months 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 10 years, 6 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 ( […]
Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 6 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 wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 7 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 […]
Oliver Diaz wrote a new post on the site The Contemporary Poem 10 years, 7 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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